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The Philosophy of Numbers 



[FIRST EDITION] 



The Philosophy of Numbers 

Their Tone and Golors 



BY 

vK^r * MRS * L DOW BALLIETT 

Author of "Body Beautiful," "How to Attain Success Through the 

Strength of Vibration ; A System of Numbers as Taught 

by Pythagoras/' "Musical Vibration of the 

Speaking Voice." 

Principal of School of Psychology and Physical Culture 
Atlantic City, New Jersey 



ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. 

1908 

L. N. FOWLER & CO: 

No. 7 Imperial Arcade, Ludgate Circus, London, E, C. 



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MRS: L: DOW BALLIETT 

ATLANTIC CITY, N. Ji 
LONDON, ENGLAND 

1908 






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This Book is Lovingly Dedicated 

to my niece 

CAROLINA D. W. STILES 

MY UFE COMPANION IN SEARCH OF TRUTH AND 
MY ASSISTANT IN GIVING IT EXPRESSION. 

THE AUTHOR. 



INDEX 

PAGE 

Your First Birth 9 

Eventful Births 15 

If We Have Individual Colors, When and How Did We 

First Receive Them? 21 

The Use of Birth Vibrations 25 

The Meaning of Colors as Disclosed Through Vibration of 

Numbers as Taught by Pythagoras 28 

Exercises to Develop Your Own Vibration^or Birth";;Digit 

—The First Trinity 32 

Exercises — Continued 37 

Exercises — Continued — Free Numbers 42 

Your Name — Its Color and Sound 46 

Reading Individual Name Vibrations — The First Trinity... 49 

Reading Individual Name Numbers — 4, 5, 6, 7 56 

Free Numbers — 8, 9, 11, 22 68 

What Have I Been Doing in the Past? 79 

The Music of the Trees 81 

Of What Practical Use are Colors and Notes? 84 

Colors and Their Individual Meaning 88 

To Find the Controlling Color in Your Number 89 

John Wanamaker's Color Scheme 92 

How to Find Your Life Song 93 

Complete Life Song With Esoteric Key-note 95 

The Esoteric Value of Numbers 97 

The Esoteric Value of Gems 99 

Furnishing Rooms in Their Own Colors 102 

The Colors and the Possibilities of the States and the Char- 
acter^ the People They Attract 105 

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INDEX Vll 

PAGE 

States that Vibrate 1 107 

The State that Vibrates 2 112 

States that Vibrate 3 113 

States that Vibrate 4 116 

The 5 Vibration 120 

States that Vibrate 6 121 

States that Vibrate 7 124 

States that Vibrate 8 129 

States that Vibrate 9 133 

States that Vibrate 11 135 

Our Island Possessions. 142 

To Find the Character of Different Parts of Cities or States 145 

Money— Its Vibrations 148 



PREFACE 

This book has been written in response to the re- 
quests of those who are interested in the study of 
Number Vibration. The requests come from all parts 
of the world asking for more of the simplified knowl- 
edge founded upon the one principle of Unity — 
that all things have but one source — and express in 
different forms the unity of the whole. The hidden 
strength or weakness of names, states, etc., as shown 
by the vowels have been evolved through the philoso- 
phy of numbers. From this source many unwritten 
laws can be made plain. 

With greetings, 

THE AUTHOR. 



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CHAPTER I 



Your First Birth 

WHOEVER realizes himself as an individual 
part of this great universe, moved from 
cradle to grave by seen and unseen forces, 
no doubt has pondered upon at least two vital ques- 
tions, — Why am I here? Why must I fill a place in 
life which appears so crowded with mistakes. 

You know there must be a first cause for the in- 
dividuality you are expressing. You know you are 
a soul in a body walking the earth and holding com- 
munication with like beings of limited memories. 

The Bible teaches that at the end of the seventh 
period Creation ceased. If this be true, where have 
you been during this long dim past between Creation's 
dawn and the present time? The place is of minor 
importance in comparison with what you have been 
doing since God sent out your soul as a ray of the Di- 
vine, holding within its vibration the ideal of becom- 
ing a perfect character. 

In the course of ages Christ came to show us 
what a perfect character should be, and every con- 
scious atom holds in latency the desire to become per- 

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10 the: philosophy of numbers 

feet. To reach this state of perfection it is necessary 
to battle sturdily with the earth currents and to go 
through experiences of all kinds, until the man be- 
comes a perfectly rounded and developed individual. 

It is of little importance what kind of bodies your 
soul formed for itself when crossing the different 
spans of life, for its desire was always to grow into 
a perfect whole; which means a perfect body, a per- 
fect soul, and when perfect, the Spirit acknowledges 
it as being one with God. 

Earth life may be likened to a child who is sent 
to a store for a loaf of bread, sugar and flour. He 
comes back bringing the bread but having forgotten 
the flour and sugar. He must return again and again 
until he completes his whole errand successfully. 

Some souls are laggards and are slow in doing 
the work their higher part chose for them, when they 
were freed from earth's dust. At this time they knew 
with the sure knowledge of the Spirit. As the ideal 
within the soul is always to grow into a perfect char- 
acter, the place was chosen on the physical plane best 
suited to advance the soul in the lessons most needed. 

When the individual, after coming to earth, yields 
to the lower earth currents and is not living at his 
highest, a constant and pervading feeling of unrest is 
ever present with him, until at last turning within, he 
finds in his higher self the true source of peace and 
happiness. When the higher self is recognized all 



YOUR FIRST BIRTH H 

the harmonies emerge. This self holds all the secrets 
of the past, the present and the future. When we 
live as we will some time live, when we know the phy- 
sical and the spiritual law as one, then will we cease 
to grope blindly, for our path will be illumined from 
the light within. 

When the conscious soul decides upon an earth 
life, with the eye of the Spirit it chooses that vibration 
in which to cross the span of life which holds the ex- 
periences it wishes to meet and overcome. It stores 
the strength of its victories in its soul forces, and 
these we term strength of character or soul growth. 
Only those acts which have in some way benefitted 
humanity will find a place in the vibration of the soul r 
for it will accept only the good and true. Thus a 
human life may appear to be a failure and yet the- 
soul will crown it for the growth it has made. 

When a soul decides again to enter upon another 
work day of life in which to amend some weakness of 
character, it takes upon itself a mystical substance 
called the body with which to struggle with earth's 
vibrations. If in any incarnation the individual re- 
fuses to let the soul guide him, he makes but little 
progress, and like the child who did not do his errand 
well, he returns to his home having gained but little 
of that which he came to seek; not having made 
strong vibrations nor gained strength of character. 

Unlike the body the soul will not masquerade and 



12 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

will express only the truth, so that when coming to 
this world it will be known by its own vibration which 
represents the moral strength it has earned in the past. 
It seeks parents and is born under natural law, hold- 
ing positions in life from which it wishes to learn 
some needed lesson. Upon some one point the parent 
and child must vibrate together. This must be true 
or there would be no point of attraction between them. 
The child's soul seeks the soul love of the parent, the 
soul of the parent seeks the soul love of the child. 
There may be an antagonism upon the physical plane, 
but the higher self has called them together. 

The most important point for the child is the time 
it comes to earth. As it comes of its own accord it 
chooses the place it needs either to gratify its ambition 
or to work in a limited sphere. 

Your soul or higher self chose the position in life 
you are filling or should fill, and there is no vibration 
or number a soul can choose that is not sufficient for 
true happiness. Each vibration must be filled accepta- 
bly or you will have to return until you have success- 
fully done your errand. 

You selected your time of birth when certain 
constellations or planets were sending forth their own 
colors, so you selected your own colors through which 
to make the journey of life and were born in month, 
day and year in which the color you desired was in 
the atmosphere. The first objective breath you drew 



YOUR FIRST BIRTH 13 

was filled with your own color and their force, and 
this color should surround you through life. When 
all its secrets have been revealed to you it will express 
itself in vibration of name, thus telling of a journey 
made in the past — a cycle earned. The child holds 
within its soul the knowledge of its past experiences 
and when a babe it has almost the same strength of 
soul as a grown man. 

Not until the Trinity of Body, Soul and Spirit 
are attuned to earth life can the being fully realize 
what life holds. The more perfectly a body is ad- 
justed to the earth vibration, the more successfully 
can it do the work of its higher self. 

When a name is to be given to a child it must 
vibrate to the exact soul growth attained. The soul 
will not masquerade. The intellect may desire to ad- 
vance itself, but not until a growth is gained will the 
soul allow the statement to be made. Thousands of 
names bear almost the same vibration as a whole, yet 
have different forms such as John and Sarah, both of 
which vibrate to 2, yet one denotes a man and the other 
a woman, and the vowels are different. So a child's 
soul arises at the approach of baptism and silently 
influences its parents and guardians to a name ex- 
pressing the vibration of the growth of its higher self. 
This accounts for the many changes of name even at 
the altar rail. The name shows the past growth of 
the individual and by carefully studying the number 



14 the philosophy of numbers 

vibration you can catch glimpses of the struggles and 
victories of the past ages. By studying the birth num- 
ber vibration of present life you can see what the indi- 
vidual wishes to gain in this incarnation. When he 
succeeds either consciously or unconsciously he will 
change his name in some way to show the strength of 
character gained in this life. Some have come to work 
to win; others to repair weak points, to do over work 
improperly done in the past. 

If we believed the soul had its beginning in this 
present body we would have to believe in its end. We 
are one with the Divine, have lived always and will live 
forever. This theory explains many things otherwise 
inexplicable. One man rides in a rubber-tired coach 
with footmen sitting behind with folded arms, show- 
ing submission to his fellow man; another with black 
skin bears the burden of his race, while beside him 
walks one with the bearing and power of a king. All 
these are but souls seeking growth in every phase of 
life, through every aspect of experience. 



CHAPTER II 



Evkntfui, Births 

WHEN the individual has successfully passed 
the limited vibrations — those under 8 — and 
has entered the free vibrations (8, 9, II, 
22), his journeys through the events of earth are near- 
ing an end. After this he usually comes as a helper 
to those who are bearing strong numbers. These 
people are far stronger than they appear. They are 
probably using only a part of their force, that part 
which is missionary. When we go to the South we 
take with us only light clothing. So men generally, 
as they walk the earth, appear very different from 
what they really are. Bodies are prone to masquerade, 
so we must look deeply into the soul to find of what 
the individual is capable and what he can overcome. 
By our own intellectual power we understand things in 
this world as great or small, but in the Spirit world 
there is no great neither is there small. So when men 
see great souls doing trifling work they sigh in pity and 
say, " A wasted life." The pity is that they cannot 
understand. These great souls may be doing the 
necessary work to perfect the harmony of their vibra- 

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16 THE PHILOSOPHY OF" NUMBERS 

tion. You will find many advanced souls working in 
a limited vibration shown in their birth number ; some 
make many mistakes, but try again and again to do 
that which is needful. 

People who come to work and win usually have 
higher vibration of birth number than name number. 
This shows weakness in past growth, but the present 
active race, if won by the highest the individual knows, 
will gain for him strong free vibrations which will 
express themselves in name number. 

In incarnating, a soul may seek a vibration that 
will draw to itself wealth ; if this vibration is success- 
fully met, in another life he may seek poverty, for in 
this way the soul learns its lessons. If in that environ- 
ment of wealth it found the treasure it sought in a 
life of luxury, the memory of wealth clings to the 
soul; but if it was blinded by earth currents and was 
not a good guardian, it will always feel the pangs of 
poverty until it is strong enough to win that in which 
it failed in the past. After it has once succeeded, the 
fear of poverty is evermore removed; money and its 
rewards come in unexpected ways. Every victory 
won is stored up as character and shows in a strong 
vibration that is expressed to the world as a name. 
When a name shows a lack of strength, it does not 
mean the bearer can not win. This present life may 
be the starting point for a great victory. One may 
live at the highest of a weak vibration and win all it 



EVENTFUI, BIRTHS 17 

holds, and will contain enough to satisfy any one who 
does his best. Before this life is finished, his acts will 
make strong free vibrations that will show in a changed 
name. No one will change or rearrange his name 
who has not earned a higher new vibration. He will 
have no desire to do so. The soul is honest and will 
not deceive. The intellect may spasmodically try to 
do so, but the world will not recognize it, and the in- 
dividual self will not hold it. But when it is once 
earned, it will be recognized by the world and the in- 
dividual holds to it as his own. We sometimes won- 
der why a man in bank and elsewhere signs his name 
John W. Smith when formerly he was known as J. 
Walker Smith. This man had outgrown his old en- 
vironment and his higher self caused some circum- 
stance to so affect him that he showed the strength 
of character he had gained by a changed name. 

Pythagoras said the Heavens and Earth vibrate 
to the single numbers or digits of numbers. Each 
single number from I to 9 are digits. 

To find your own numbers divide the alphabet 
into nine parts, thus : — 

123456789 
abcde fghi 
j klmnopqr 
s tuvwxyz 



18 the philosophy op numbers 

Take for example the name of Henry Elder. 
H is found to vibrate to 8 

-rf ( i i i a a < t - 

-NT ( « < < (« « « << _ 

R " «« << << << 9 

34 

Add these numbers to find the digit of Henry, 3 

4 

7 
7 is the digit of Henry. 



B vibrate 


s to 5 


L 


" 3 


D 


" 4 


B 


" 5 


R 


" 9 




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Add these numbers to find the digit, 2 




6 



of Elder, which is 8. 

The digit of Henry is 7 
The digit of Elder is 8 

15 
Add to find the digit of full name 1 + 5=6. 






EVENTFUL BIRTHS 19 

6 is the name vibration of Henry Elder. 

He was born January 17, 1872. 

January is month 1. 

Day 17; digit of day is 8. 

The year = 1 + 8 + 7 + 2 = 18, = 9. 

Add together month, day and year to find birth 
number and we have 1 + 8 + 9= 18 = 9. 

We find the name vibration of Henry Elder is 6 
and his keynote or birth vibration is 9. By the fore- 
going table of values taken from Balliett's " Success 
Through Vibration " we find his birth vibration is 
higher than his name vibration, which shows he came 
to earth this time to work and win in the higher walks 
of life. His life may be full of failures, but he may 
be gaining strength through these very failures. 
From this same key in the same manner as you found 
the name and birth vibration of Henry Elder, find 
every thing in the seen and unseen world. 

The numbers vibrate in value as follows : 

ir 

1 22 9 

2 8 

3 7 

4 5 6 

The first three numbers I, 2, 3, compose the 
sacred cycle of creation, assimilation and expression. 
They also denote the action of the mind found in im- 
pression, re-impression and expression. When this 



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trinity of numbers is found in digit of single name or 
birth vibration it shows the power of harmonious ex- 
pression. 

The cube is formed of the numbers 4, 5, 6, 7. 
These are the vibrations that seem limited in action, 
and yet each contains enough success for the happi- 
ness of any one bearing it if he seeks the highest of 
his vibration. 

The unlimited numbers of freedom are 8, 9, 11; 
to these is added 22, which is closely related to 11. 

Pythagoras considers 1 and 22 as numbers pos- 
sessing a mystical character, as they are the beginning 
and end of the Hebrew alphabet. 11 being the high- 
est point of its vibration, 22 possesses the character 
of 2 with added strength and freedom. 

Find musical key by birth vibration. 

c d e f g a b 
1234567 
8 9 

22 expresses the octave of d 
11 expresses the octave of c 



CHAPTER III 

3> We Have Individual Colors, When and How 
Did We First Receive Them? 

WE all feel that certain colors exert more in- 
fluence over us than others. For days and 
weeks we may hold to one color and then 
suddenly tire of it. Sometimes we do not seem to 
seek another — it seeks us. There is a cause for this 
as there is for a piece of furniture appearing har- 
monious in one room and inharmonious in another. 
A rug and a wall paper have different characters in 
different rooms. 

A fruit may be greatly appreciated one season 
and the following year we may be indifferent to it, only 
after other seasons have come and gone to find our 
former taste restored. Friends often share the same 
fate; not that love is dead, because it will be again 
renewed. 

To get a scientific cause for these expressions of 
life, to understand what has been taught us by Pytha- 
goras, Plato, Aristotle and Socrates, we must realize 
that these philosophers were mystics. A mystic at 
that time, as at the present, believed in the Oneness 
of All; that everything came from one source; that 

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every separate thing was entirely dependent upon 
every other separate thing, and yet all the separate 
things were joined in the Great Universal Chain of 
Infinite Lives. 

We have had many beautiful theories of colors 
and of the auros which surround us, called also astral 
colors, which are controlled by our birth months, but 
no one has yet been able to tell us how these months 
came by their colors. I have explained my theory be- 
fore many scientific men and women and asked them 
to correct any statement I made which was not true. 
I now ask you to do the same, as I am ready to accept 
a better theory should one offer. 

This is the way in which I believe we receive our 
colors. Mineralogists teach that storms are caused 
by different planets which approach each other in high 
heaven. Some are classed as friendly, others as 
malevolent, and still others as neutral. Each planet 
is loaded with its own kind of minerals and is revolv- 
ing at its own rate of vibration. Nature in all parts 
shows a three-fold motion — the trinity of three parts 
made one is expressed in every seed, in every bud 
and in man. So each mineral in a planet has its 
coarse, fine and finer part. For instance take copper. 
Its finer part is verdigris, which forms upon the sur- 
face when exposed to the air. This makes the astral 
color of the mineral copper and is called the mystical 
part. But it is not mystical, it is real. 



INDIVIDUAL COLORS 23 

Iron throws out the red found in iron rust. In 
coal we find the iridescent colors of the prism. These 
colors belong to these especial minerals, each mineral 
having its own color. When a planet approaches an- 
other the mineral that predominates in that world is 
sending out its colors filling full the surrounding at- 
mosphere with its tint. 

If the planet it has approached has harmonious 
coloring it is considered a friendly planet. When 
they are not harmonious, the storms that are caused 
mean no more than do the stinging words between 
people who love each other. They are simply a con- 
flict of cosmic color. 

The first breath the child breathes into its little 
body in the objective world is the breath that is filled 
with the color of the atmosphere; it absorbs its rays 
and breathes from center to circumference, from cir- 
cumference to center. The thousands of individual 
cells in its body take up this breath and claim it as its 
own. The purity of the color depends upon the spiri- 
tual development of the individual. One artist will 
reach heights of color another beside him will never 
realize. So in men and women, it is not so much the 
color as the power back of the color. 

When a soul is born into the world it has almost 
the strength of the grown man or woman, but it is 
badly equipped to express itself in earth life. It must 
conform to nature's laws and develop a fit body to do 



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its work in an active world. The helplessness of the 
child's weak body is a type of our own relation to our 
higher selves. 

The strength of the parent no doubt has some 
effect on the child's desire to be born at a certain time. 
But we must not forget that the child is often stronger 
than its parents. 

A man can run an engine when it is properly ad- 
justed, with fire and coal and water, but it is necessary 
to have power back of the engine to make it move. 
The spirit force started the lungs before they could 
begin to act. So two persons may be born at the same 
instant and each will select or attract of the colors 
about him the tones he finds himself attuned to. He 
may select the lifeless tones in any color and live in 
the vibration to which they respond, or he may seek 
a low vibration and exalt it until it expresses a great 
work done in a lowly place. 



CHAPTER IV 



The Use of Birth Vibrations 

AS colors have different rates of vibration the 
color or colors of the birth vibration is the 
most important as it colors all the environ- 
ment through which you must make the journey of 
life. When the journey shall be finished all the vic- 
tories won will be tinged with this color and when 
the soul comes back for other work the victories 
gained in the last life will be stored as character and 
will then be expressed in a name number which vi- 
brates to this color or colors. Individual bodies have 
certain predominating minerals. A No. 2 has lived 
or is living in the gold color, as 2 vibrates to gold. 
An 1 1 and the other free numbers attract all the colors 
of the other free numbers. An 8 may not have 
gained all the vibrations belonging to 9, II, 22, but 
an 11 has made the entire round of cycles, although 
it may return to repair weak points of character or 
as a messenger. 

When persons meet as individuals they often 
clash, as do planets from the inharmony of their 
colors. These things are no more than expressions 

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of harmony or inharmony on the physical plane. De- 
veloped souls by love become one with all things. 
Every person, no matter what his condition, vibrates 
at least one color that is in harmony with every other 
person and for strength of body and soul that vibra- 
tion should be recognized. 

The fullness of life is measured by the number 
of vibrations one gives and receives. Keep the palette 
clean with love and no inpure color will remain upon it. 

The name is the force and color of the aura of 
the individual ; the birth vibration is the color through 
which you chose to pass this incarnation. When the 
colors about you seem dark and unwholesome, go to 
the centre of light within — ask reverently that the 
purest color of your birth vibration may flow out 
through every cell of your body and watch it go hap- 
pily forth changing gloom to joy. 

If you live at your highest all things are friends, 
no matter how they appear. Nothing good or evil 
can approach you or enter into your body or environ- 
ment that has not been attracted by yourself, by some 
thought or deed of the past. Everything in the Uni- 
verse is trying to adjust itself to the highest good. 
Every act of faith and thought of kindness helps in 
the cosmic adjustment of the race. The highest ideal 
for man is the Christ. The man who strives to lead 
the Christ life approaches the ideal man. People 
may try to crucify him, but he holds to the Christ 



the use: of birth VIBRATIONS 27' 

who overcame death, the cross and the turmoil will 
dissolve in peace. The aura of the force of his nature, 
which expresses itself in the color of his name, can 
be made so strong and pure no harm can penetrate 
it from without. Nothing but a vibration from within 
the man's own mind can harm him. 

The color of the birth vibration must ever be 
kept before the mind and eye, as these colors grow 
dull and impure when the thoughts are impure, but 
down to their deepest shades become bright and ra- 
diant as the result of true thinking. 



CHAPTER V 

The Meaning of Colors as Disclosed Through 

Vibration of Numbers as Taught 

by Pythagoras 

PYTHAGORAS taught that the world and the 
Heavens and all therein vibrate to the digits, 
which means any number from 9 to I. 

If we have colors we must have rates of vibra- 
tion, and if we vibrate we must vibrate at our own 
rate and consequently each must have also its own 
sound. The law of Rhythm is founded upon Nature's 
scientific laws and all things are vibrating in rhythm. 
And so the month and its day, and the year of your 
birth give the colors and note, called the key-note 
you are expressing in life. The key-note of life allows 
the soul to make the body an open door for the Tri- 
une God to use. No vibration should be closed that 
leads to anything in Earth, Air, Fire and Water. We 
should eat and drink the same food our fellow men 
use — this is one way to comprehend Divine and Hu- 
man fellowship, leading to a knowledge of the Uni- 
versal Brotherhood. 

Christ gave us a glimpse of what the body should 
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THE MEANING OF COLORS 29 

be when he dropped the coarser particles and ap- 
peared in one so fine it was no longer in bondage 
to physical laws. If you spell out the vibration of 
Christ it is 5. 5 is also pink, the color of the white 
light with a touch of the flesh. 

Jesus was born December 25. The digit of the 
1 2th month is 3, of the 25th day is 7. 7 and 3 make 
10 or 1. By the same process flame is the color of 1. 

1 is a principle and belongs to all persons. Any 
one who has come to a consciousness of the Divine 
and Human Oneness has been born with the flame of 
the Christ principle and is a light bearer. 

B vibrates to 2 

Iv " "3 

U " "3 

E " "5 

4 is the vibration of Blue. 

G vibrates to 7 
R " "9 

H " " 5 
• E " " 5 

N " "5 

3i =4 
4 is the vibration of Green. 



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P vibrates to 7 


I 


" 9 


N " 


" 5 


K 


" 2 




23 = 5 


5 is the vibration of Pink 


O vibrates to 6 


R 


" 9 


A 


" 1 


N 


" 5 


G 


" 7 


E 


" 5 



33 = 6 

6 is the vibration of Orange, also of Scarlet and 
Heliotrope found in the same way. 

S vibrates to 1 

E " "5 
E " "5 
L " "2 

16 = 7 

7 is the vibration of Steel, also of Brick and Mag- 
:-net found in the same way. 

C vibrates to 3 
A " " 1 
N " "5 
A " " 1 
R " "9 
Y " t( 7 

26 = 8 

8 is the vibration of Canary. 



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* R. vibrates to 9 
K " " 5 

D " " 4 

18 = 9 
9 is the vibration of Red. 

C vibrates to 3 
R " "9 

£ " " 5 
A " " 1 
M " " 4 

22 

.22 is the vibration of Cream. 

W vibrates to 5 

H " " 8 

I " " 9 

E " " 5 

29 = 11 

II is the vibration of White, Black, Yellow and 
Violet. 

All the other colors can be found in the same 
manner. 



CHAPTER VI 



Exercises to Develop Your Own Vibration or 
Birth Digit — The First Trinity 

IF your name number or birth digit as a whole is I, 
place one foot directly in front of the other at a dis- 
tance of 12 inches — raise right arm perfectly 
straight in front of ear, the first finger pointing upward, 
left arm straight at side with finger pointing downward. 
Think of yourself as a line of strength and truth 
made by the Creator when the world was formed. 
This line stands to-day as the principle of life and 
expresses the Unity of all things. You should be 
able to help those who wish to understand this unity. 
If you do not understand this principle and break or 
disrupt it in your own mind your weakness lies right 
here. Your force is broken. To understand it, stand 
as this line shows, with one hand pointing to the high- 
est, the other in the earth vibrations. Breathe slowly 
as though bringing the force from the depths of 
earth, bringing it through feet, legs, and up through 
the body following the line through bowels, stomach 
and vocal organs through the face to the top of the 
head. Expel slowly, sending the current down back 

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EXERCISES TO DEVELOP YOUR OWN VIBRATION 33 

of head, through back of neck, pausing at back of 
neck and solar plexus, down through the vertebrae 
using each section as a step until the base is reached. 
Now pause and realize it is at this point as well as in 
the solar plexus lying back of the stomach and at the 
base of the brain that the reservoirs lie, in which mag- 
netism is stored. Send the current to earth the same 
as when inhaling. Repeat five times. Do this daily, 
changing position of feet and hands from right to left. 
Breathe without allowing a break in the current at 
any place in the body. It is unity you wish to ex- 
press and if the vibration breaks, stop and try again 
until you succeed. Then stop for that time. If the 
current is sent from head to foot unbroken, it is life- 
giving. But if this law is broken, inharmony upon 
all planes is the result. Hum the note of C. 

No. 2. 

If you are a No. 2 you will find yourself bene- 
fitted by this exercise : — 

Stand with arms outstretched directly in front of 
ear, with the shoulders, hands and fingers in a straight 
line. 

Stand on the balls of both feet, placed parallel. 
Draw slowly a breath from the depths of earth as a 
vehicle for the force. Bring it slowly through the 
body up to the head and let it pass out through your 
arms and fingers in straight lines, also sending out a 



34 TH£ PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

vibration from the top of the head, withdraw the lines, 
making them return with an incoming breath from 
fingertips and top of head, sending it slowly down 
through your body to the earth. Do this and you will 
see the lines come and go outside of your body. They 
are your own vibrations controlled by concentration 
and have in them the magnetic force that opens doors 
you long to open in the Spiritual and material world. 
2 in Geometry is lines. You stand for it, one line 
Spirit, the other Matter. When Spirit rules it gov- 
erns matter; when matter is allowed to rule, the man 
weakens in spiritual strength. 

When expelling breath, hum the note B — let it 
pour through your arms and out at the top of your 
head — send it out in straight lines, and make it return 
and pass down into the earth. Let the strength come 
from the diaphragm, forcing the sound B tone through 
the solar plexus, out in two straight lines as far as pos- 
sible, pressing it out without limit of distance. 

No. 3. 

If your name digit or birth vibration is 3, to be a 
perfect character you must express the two preceding 
vibrations, 1 and 2. 

The 2 character is a combination of 1 and its 
own. You are to express them both. 

Remember always that you are emotional and 
impressionable, und unless you keep your own high 



EXERCISES TO DEVELOP YOUR OWN VIBRATION 35 

ideals always present, you are liable to be swayed by 
your surroundings and to express anything offered to 
you for expression. You must be so firmly rooted 
and grounded in truth that it will be impossible for 
anything below your ideals to find a channel of ex- 
pression through you. 

Your vibration is the Christ number for the up- 
lifting of the race — it is through the 3, 6, and 9 that 
expression is given. If this principle were kept clearly 
in mind, music, literature and all the arts would be 
uplifted and the education of the race would make 
rapid progress. You are the 3 principle, the Trinity, 
which is found in all nature — in Father, Son and Holy 
Spirit, in Body, Soul and Spirit, in Father, Mother, 
Child. In nature Unity in Diversity Makes Harmony. 
Your note is E; hum and sing it and use the 1 and 2 
exercises, but with them use your own especial note. 

The first three numbers, 1, 2, 3, compose the first 
Trinity. 1, of course, is C, 2 vibrates D and 3 vi- 
brates E. Now 3 may join with the C of 1 and make 
a perfect harmony, or it may make an incomplete har- 
mony by expressing only the D of the 2. Virtually 
C, D, E all belong to 3, and it rests with each indi- 
vidual 3 to say what notes or harmony it will express. 

Your success depends upon always keeping your- 
self intact, expressing the Trinity of Father, Son and 
Spirit. Every joy and pleasure ever expressed in the 
world is contained in this trinity of 3. If there is a 



36 the philosophy of numbers 

sting beneath a pleasure that pleasure is not in the 
right vibration for you; look a little higher and you 
will find its counterpart there with a lasting joy the 
other did not know. When you do this the higher 
seems to weary the lower and finally drives it out of 
your environment. 



CHAPTER VII 

Exercises — (Continued) 
No. 4. 

IF your name digit is 4 or your birth vibration is 
this active number, stand on the balls of both feet 
— place your hands on your hips, elbows straight 
out, shoulders well back — draw your breath up through 
your legs and pass out through your elbows. Send it 
out until you can feel the force leave you like streams 
of blue light. Keep your chest raised and abdomen 
well drawn back. Do this five times, then straighten 
the arms at the sides from the shoulders, clinch the 
fist and send the force with the breath out through the 
arms and head; walk four steps with energized legs, 
holding breath well energized, then relax. Do this 
four times and hum the note of F with these exercises. 

No. 5. 

If 5 is the digit of your name or birth vibration, 
stand erect and draw a long breath, bringing the force 
from the earth up through your feet and legs, raise 
the arms even with the shoulders in all directions, 
front, sides, with one in front and one in back; hold 

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38 TH£ PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

perfectly still and send the breath out in all directions 
from the finger tips of the open hands. Hum or sing 
the note of G ; then send the breath out strongly ener- 
gized through the eyes until they seem like burning 
streams of force. Do not open them unduly wide, 
but make them channels for the vibration ; let the force 
come from the solar plexus and feel the inflowing and 
outflowing vibration at the same time. Concentrate 
your thoughts on this exercise and exclude everything 
else from your mind. When you can do this, it will 
show the kind of growth a 5 needs to make. 

No. 6. 

If the digit of your name or birth vibration is 6, 
know the desirable thing for you to gain is rest in mo- 
tion — complete rest and complete motion. This is 
Pythagoras' Law of Opposites. When labor of any 
kind is found beneath your hand, do it actively with 
an inner feeling of repose. The law of cheerfulness 
lies unobserved in this triple union of the odd and 
even 2 and the energetic 4 with its vivd interest in all 
living things from the insect of the hive all the way 
up to man. It is the highest working number. It 
should endeavor to demonstrate the union of Spirit 
with the internal currents, holding the internal to the 
external until they culminate in the freed vibration 
of 8. 

You should be a home of rest to those in your 



exercises (continued) 39 

environment and the same people can be thrown by 
you into a tumult. Only by the action of the Spirit 
can the still small voice be found. 

Your exercise is clear only to yourself and from 
it you can gain the most perfect idea of your place in 
the universe when raised to your proper spiritual 
height, where within your activity is found the rest 
which is its pivotal point. 

Reach out your arms and hold them high in 
upper air — twin souls are they of rest and motion — 
lay one over the other and hold them so until you 
feel the circulation of the body equalized, then force 
all your strength into the hands held tight over your 
head. Fold one over the other and sing in a clear 
voice the song of your life — found in the way your 
name is delineated to you. Hold your hands in this 
position until the last notes are sung, then say " Father, 
Son and Holy Spirit, lead my soul into the Divine 
light of the blessed Trinity." Fold your hands again 
and again as though in submission. Then let your 
thoughts turn to the things of the outer world filled 
with universal love and hold this thought of love for 
all things until you feel you have strength to meet 
equally the cares and burdens of the world. 

No. 7. 

If your name digit or birth vibration is 7, stand 
or sit with body passive; if sitting, with hands lying 



40 THE PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

in lap and hold the thought of the source of all life 
flowing into the innermost recesses of your being, 
where is stored the knowledge of Spirit and Matter. 
In this reservoir is stored the force ready and waiting 
to aid both you and every other soul incarnate. You 
cannot advance alone. Your gifts gained by selfish- 
ness will drop from you, for they have never been 
bathed in the pure waters of life. 

Every day, sitting, standing, or lying, hold to the 
strength at the centre, call it diaphragm or solar 
plexus, it matters not, and breathe a deep breath as 
coming through all parts of your body to this one cen- 
tre. Then holding firmly to this one point, send out 
streams of love until there is not an atom in your body 
that does not vibrate to this good thought. Send it 
afar to every one who needs it. It holds in latency 
just the thing suffering souls need and you clear their 
atmosphere and make it possible for them to get what 
they need for their highest good. Send this vibration 
to those whom you do not love as well as to those 
whom you do love. You will soon find yourself freed 
from the bondage of resentment. 

As you push out this vibration, sometimes sing 
the note of your birth which is B — or fa — sing it out 
clearly and hum it until you feel it vibrate through 
and through your body and clear your brain of mental 
images of past impressions. Hold most firmly to the 
digit of birth in these exercises, but combine with it 



Exercises (continued) 41 

the digit of each name you bear and strike each one 
clearly and the digit of the whole. 

You wish to feel the birth vibration most strongly 
because that vibration contains the experiences you 
long to meet and store with the character vibrations 
you have already gained in the great life struggle. 
7 is the number that holds all the notes of the musical 
gamut of sound. It is the physical expression of the 
universal language called music. It is the musical in- 
strument that the universal notes can be made upon. 
It can as well be used to express noise as to express 
harmony. A musical note is universal because it has 
fulfilled the law of harmony as has n, 22. 

A note holds within itself what the 7 holds and 
cannot express. As 7 is not free, it holds and feels the 
perfect power it cannot liberate, especially when the 
birth number is 7, unless is has with it a free number. 
7 holds the melody of the universal within its grasp 
and seeks to free it. 



CHAPTER VIII 

Exercises — (Continued) — Free) Numbers 
No. 8. 

IF your name or birth number is 8, your soul knows 
freedom and with many stripes has tried to make 

your brain realize it. You should stand ready 
to help every other soul sing his own song of life. 
Your higher self longs to pick up the discarded notes 
of your fellow man, be he prince or peasant, for the 
soul knows no difference, and to help him find the 
beauty of his own life song. 

You have reached the foreground of expression 
and all notes are in your soul only waiting there for you 
to give them expression in the world they desire to 
bring into harmony. 

Your greatest power lies in the sound of C. 
Strike it clearly in all its ranges and hum it sending 
its vibration to every part of your body and brain. 
Sing also the combination of your birth, the digit 
notes of month, day and year, finishing with the digit 
of the whole, striking it with precision. Also use the 
exercises of i, 2, 4, 6, using your own life sounds. 



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EXERCISES (CONTINUED) — FREE NUMBERS 43 

No. 9. 

If 9 is the digit of your name or birth vibration, the 
almost whole gamut of sound is yours. If you have 
not brought from the depths of your own nature the 
wealth of treasure that lies there, you have lost the 
supreme joy of living and been punished with many 
trials. 

You should realize by this time that all souls are 
as one soul and that your soul and the Great Soul 
know no difference between them. They are in con- 
stant communion and only the cloak of flesh holds 
them apart. To stand apart, separating yourself by 
discordant vibrations is a false position for you as a 
9 to hold. You no longer are the expression of a 
separate soul, but represent the great free body of 
universal Brotherhood and yet you may be expressing 
the exact opposite and acting as a discordant in the 
choir of the music of the Spheres. 

You should help every brother who is striving to 
make the vibration you now hold. He may outrun 
you in the race for the perfect life we are still striv- 
ing for, the life showing in the vibrations of 8, 9, 11, 
22, when these are won as a whole. The master is 
trying to use you for the betterment of the race. The 
note for your individual development is D. Sing it 
as your chief helper if it is your birth vibration and 
use any or all of the exercises of 1, 3, 5 and 7. Using 
their vibration or Spirit note may recall their memo- 



44 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

ries, and if you hold to their highest, you will find in 
them latent aid. Remember you are your brother's 
keeper and without outward demonstration or desire 
for worldly gain pick up their notes when they falter, 
and your own song will be enriched as you help others. 

No. 22. 

If 22 is the digit of your name or birth vibration, 
you reached the consolidation of human song. You 
are the avowed burden bearer for souls who need your 
aid. Your soul is not waiting for them to break the 
harmony, but when they falter in their life song you 
unconsciously join in with them until from your strong 
vibration they grow brave and resume with joy the 
journey of life. 

You must sing with others or your own song will 
be weakened and enemies instead of friends will con- 
front you. 

Your own especial notes are found in the octave 
of D struck together — the highest and the lowest. 
Never look for others to aid you. The Father leads 
you and yours is not the path of poverty. You 
have stored wealth in the past. You have had it and 
been a good steward or you would not be a 22. Vex 
not yourself as to your path in life — it is God's life 
and God's path. Simply trust and do your best and 
you cannot be overthrown or feel the pangs of poverty. 
You are the accepted child of the Spirit. All the ex- 



EXERCISES (CONTINUED) — FREE NUMBERS 45 

ercises and breaths in the whole gamut of vibration 
is yours. 

No. ii. 

If ii is the digit of your name or birth number 
the octave of C is calling you. In your own notes is 
found the foundation of all music and you are one of 
the leaders in the world's great chorus. And yet it is 
possible that this soul of yours is shut up in a body 
that encloses it like a coat of mail. If so, it is possible 
that you swear like a fiend at the struggles and groans 
of this angel self striving for release. It is no wonder 
the angels weep to see men, who have been God's help- 
ers on the silent side of life, so fallen from their high 
estate in the visible world. 

But an ii, 22, 9, or 8 can easily turn and bring 
their objective and subjective parts in harmony. 

All the exercises and breaths in the whole gamut 
of vibrations is yours. You have made a great vic- 
tory. Do not soil your beautiful soul life with one 
false note. You are God's messenger to help human- 
ity in every way and place and the songs all they are 
singing are also your songs. 



CHAPTER IX 



Your Name — Its Color and Sound 

YOU will often hear it said, " My name is an acci- 
dent — that which my parents just happened to 
give me." This is never true. You will admit 
the soul is older than your present lifetime. It takes 
the value from life to think that God or Nature has 
supreme favorites, to some of whom he gives all good 
things while others go destitute. In this there would 
be no justice. If man's soul has not always lived it 
must have an end, because that which has a beginning 
must logically come to an end. The body dies and is 
cast aside like a wornout garment, but the soul lives 
on getting experience of all kinds with the single end 
in view of becoming a perfect character. The ideal 
must have been implanted in the ray before it left the 
Godhead. The ideal man is Jesus, who came to show 
us what a man should be. The man who in any sta- 
tion in life is doing his best, is making strong vibra- 
tions which will show as free numbers. Every act 
done with a lofty aim opens a vibration of the soul, 
which lets in the natural sun, and the Son of God is 
born again. Because a man is not holding a high 

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YOUR NAME — ITS COLOR AND SOUND 47 

place in the world does not show he is not able to do 
so. In some past life he may have had honors, wealth 
and education. When again coming to earth, when 
Iris spiritual sight was undimmed, he chose his own 
time of birth, to secure the vibration he is now rilling. 
He knew to be born of such parents and to live amid 
such environment was what he needed to enable him 
to grow into greater manhood. 

A man who has been educated in past lives will 
have wisdom. We often say of such people they do 
not need teacher and book. They came to improve 
in humble traits of char cater, as may be seen by their 
birth digit, which is usually 4, 5, 6, or 7. Such men 
may be giants in knowledge but they seldom rise to 
the great places in the material world. If they live 
at their very highest, success may crown them, but 
they work for work's sake, and the world is inclined 
to let them go unrewarded. When such a man has a 
name with strong vibrations men respect and love him. 
When a man has an 8, 9, 11, or 22 in his birth path 
he came for honors and to work in the great places of 
life; but often those who possess them, and they are 
of their own choosing, fall into the gamut below. 

Your name will show you where your melody lies, 
also the motive you are using to gain the vibration 
yon desire. You may have in past lives developed 
the spiritual side of your nature to the exclusion of 
the physical side and not have fulfilled the complete 



48 THE PHILOSOPHY 0? NUMBERS 

law of body, soul and spirit. You may have a name 
like Mary Patterson,— Mary 3 and Patterson 11. 3 
always stands for expression, so 3, 1 1 would show 
she had already expressed the spiritual. This time 
she may have come with a birth path of 4 and she will 
be constantly annoyed to find she knows so little of 
the really practical things of life. She will be likely 
also to annoy her friends until her vibrations become 
attuned to the earth currents. 

Another may have expressed the physical side of 
life with name 4, 6, 4. This man knows the world 
and humanity, but the highest conception of God is 
unknown to him. He knows God through man and 
man's love, but is not attuned to spirit. He will have 
to seek that which is lacking. 



CHAPTER X 

Reading Individual Namk Vibrations — The First 
Trinity 

IF your name digit is I, you stand as a foundation 
for others to build upon. It is your mission to 

hold to Unity in all things. Let others falter, but 
you must remain steadfast. 

When you break the Law of Unity and resent the 
seeming injustices of the world, you close the vibra- 
tion to human hearts, and also to the peace of the 
spirit. Your vibration of I is a hidden esoteric flame 
burning the self-hood from your nature. When this 
shall be accomplished, it will drop into the white ashes 
of the nth vibration and rise free into objective as 
well as subjective life. This will not occur if you 
break the unity you came to maintain. Should you 
break this unity, you will suffer periods of disaster, 
usually occurring every seven years. This number 
of I opens the door to the life of a mystic, as was 
Socrates, Browning, Emerson and many more of our 
great inventors and philosophers. It means Unity, 
the binding together of all things and the understand- 
ing of life as whole. When failure of cosmic con- 

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50 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

sciousness is recognized, of all vibrations I is the 
most miserable. When living with but not under 
its vibration the flame, which is its color, can be a 
cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. You 
have almost completed the entire cycle at least once, 
lacking only the i, which makes the 1 1. If you fulfill 
your mission by holding and maintaining unity, you 
will make the nth vibration in this life. 

No. 2. 

The color of No. 2 is gold and this mineral pre- 
dominates in the body when a No. 2 is living at his 
highest. This number never has any middle ground; 
it is either vibrating to 1, spirit or its opposite, matter. 
When holding to 1 it is musical and brings together 
the harmonies in earth currents to express music — it 
is then able to draw from all sources to adjust all cur- 
rents to harmony. When living in the earth currents, 
the spiritual vibrations move in a closed body, which 
expresses weakness and disease. They are attuned to 
the pipe organ and golden instruments should be used, 
as this mineral belongs to 2. 

No. 2 has either very strong muscles or weak 
ones — there is no middle ground. If the digit of 
your name is 2, jasper has been in some way 
connected with your past. Gold is your color. 
No especial flower has 2. This does not mean 
you do not love them, but they have little part in 



READING INDIVIDUAL NAME VIBRATIONS 51 

your composition. Your body vibrates from vege- 
tables of all kinds to supersensitive smells. As your 
bird is a bird of paradise, it is probable you have lived 
in past incarnations where you have become familiar 
with them. 

If this is your birth number, this bird and the 
lark are to be studied. If your name is 2, you have 
had the advantage of the most classical musical knowl- 
edge as Bach and Handel have been familiar to you. 
If it is your birth vibration, study both these masters. 
The maple tree is in some way known to you or you 
must study it. The pipe organ is your instrument, 
showing that you can draw upon your stored knowl- 
edge of Bach and Handel if you hold to your highest. 

No 2 has no relation to fruits. 

Your guardian angels have been St. John and St. 
Ursula. The cross is your symbol. The part that 
points to Heaven is the I part, when man's will crosses 
God's will it becomes a cross. Hold to the first part. 
No. 3. 

This number is the vehicle of expression. It is 
the work of 3 to reveal the hidden, to brush from 
sealed eyes the earth dust so that others may see the 
glory of the divine all about them. When vibrating 
in its true key, it is a beautiful, happy number. 

It can express a boundless Christ love and when oc- 
casion demands, show to the world the horror of a 
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52 THE PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

As beauty abounds so freely in this world, so we 
find the 3 a joyous and happy nature. Whenever you 
find this vibration in a name, it always wishes to ex- 
press the vibration before or after it. When it is 
found in the birth number, it means you came to re- 
express the vibrations found in the name number. 

It has no colors of its own, it takes the color of 
any vibration it may be using. 

This number closes the Trinity and is considered 
as vibrating at a high rate as seen by the chart, the 
swing from right to left being a long distance. 

Suppose your name is Mary Jones. Mary vi- 
brates 3, Jones 9. The meaning is that Mary has ex- 
pressed the high free soul nature in the past and now 
she may have come with a No. 4 or No. 6 birth path. 
She holds latent within her soul these beautiful high 
vibrations and may not be wholly conscious of them 
and be living now in a lower birth vibration to gain 
mastery of a weak point in her soul's growth. It 
always means expression. 

3 closes the first Trinity of Body, Mind and Spirit. 
3 expresses this Trinity. The mind works first by im- 
pression. You see the words I have written? This 
is I. If you let them sink into your mind and then 
put them together in words, that is re-impression, 
No. 2. No. 3 is expression. Not to express yourself 
in some way weakens the individual. The stronger 
the impression, the clearer the re-impression, the bet- 



READING INDIVIDUAL NAME VIBRATIONS 53 

ter will be the expression, and it will express either 
negative or positive conditions. E as well as C and D 
have much to tell you. Always sing the air or chords 
that lie under your hand, as it is the mission of 3 to 
express. If 3 is your name number, you have already 
expressed it, then express your birth number. 

If the digit of your name is 3, you have been a 
Peacemaker and have given freedom to humanity. 
If your birth number is 3 these are the things you 
must do in this life. Your liver, glands and blood 
are either the strongest or weakest parts of your body. 

If your name number is 3, you have had 
amethysts, amber and rubies and should now be strong 
enough to bring them to you as gifts. 

You have been familiar with marble and known 
radium. Your flowers show no especial climate, as 
the rose, orchid, forget-me-not, pansy, nasturtium and 
wild-olive can live in many climes ; also your body, to 
a sensitive nostril, should throw out the odor of rose 
or dactylis as Plutarch tells of Alexander. 

Your birds show grandeur, as the eagle and the 
swan. 

Your past incarnations have been rich in music, 
as you show familiarity with Verdi, Mendelssohn and 
Schubert. 

Your trees speak of a Southern clime in mahog- 
any and red-wood. Your fruits are grapes and the 
lime. 



54 THE PHILOSOPHY 01? NUMBERS 

The instrument you have played on is the trom- 
bone. 

You vibrate to all angels. Mary is your patron 
saint, and the wreath, which is endless, is the emblem 
you have expressed. 

If your birth vibration is 3, all these things you 
must seek, buy, or in some way acquire. 

3 is a sacred number and is always found closely 
asociated with 7, and 11. 1, 2, 3 are higher in vibra- 
tion than 4, 5, 6, 7, but not as high as 8, 9, 11, 22. 

3 is a principle running through all numbers, and 
when found in a name shows the owner knows what 
mental unity means and has attained some time in past 
lives glimpses of Cosmic Consciousness, 8, 9, if, 22 
possess. The Cosmic Consciousness, which may be il- 
lustrated by this story told of a youth who wanted to 
go into the temple to administer the rites of the order, 
but the priest thought he had not made the connecting 
link of consciousness between the human and the divine. 
So he told the lad to go out into the world and bring 
back one thousand horses for his God. The lad was 
without money, but he went out into the streets and be- 
gan crying " My God wants one thousand horses, my 
God wants one thousand horses," He went about 
for days and nights repeating this cry until at last 
the people wearied of hearing 1 it and finally were 
touched with compassion and one and another began 
bringing in a horse. The cry went on and the horses 






READING INDIVIDUAL, NAME VIBRATIONS 55 

increased in number until men volunteered to care 
for them. By this time the boy was crying nothing 
but " God — horses," and finally, utterly unmindful of 
the result of his words, the boy merely whispered "God." 

He took the horses to the priest as a gift from 
God and man. The unity had been made by a 
thousand persons and the priest took the lad into the 
temple as one who had gained Universal Consciousness. 

So persons vibrating to the high numbers 8, 9, 
11, 22 have in some past life done something that 
opened to them the cosmic intelligence. Persons who 
have not a strong number may make one in this life 
by holding fast to one high unselfish principle until it 
sinks into the body vibration. 

It is a grave mistake to think a word cannot be 
made to reach far out and far into the spiritual world. 
Your thought, when using a word, tones its vibration. 
Take the word God. This expression of the Divine has 
the 8th free vibration. The word Divine has the free 
9th— Jesus is 1 1— Christ vibrates to 5. This number, 
according to Pythagoras, stands for masculine and 
feminine. After Christ arose he possessed this qual- 
ity. WJien we mention or think of a name, it starts 
that person's vibration and instantly attacks others in 
the same vibration. The feeling is according to the 
thought.. So in this way, a strong vibration opens the 
way for intercourse with strong people. The same is 
true of the weak vibrations. 



CHAPTER XI 



Reading Individual Name Numbers — 4, 5, 6, 7 

IF your name digit is 4, you have passed in safety 
the F note and know the secrets of that musical 

vibration. What you now desire to do, lies in 
the note of your birth path. If 4 is your birth num- 
ber, find all there is in 4 or F. Of all the numbers 
this is the most personal; it deals with the intellect 
and judges everything both in the seen and unseen 
world from an intellectual standpoint. If you live 
in the highest part of your vibration, you will build, 
by your own energy, landmarks along life's pathway 
on which your name will be carved ; if you drop to 
the vibration of self, ignoring your fellow workers, your 
monuments will crumble and another builder, work- 
ing with higher motives, will take your place. It is 
your patriotic duty to protect your family and coun- 
try. It is in your vibration to do it, and if you have 
not sufficient bodily vigor to do it, you are not living 
in your own vibration. No. 4 means physical and 
mental strength. 

Green and blue vibrations have surrounded you 
from your first breath. These are the colors of the 

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READING INDIVIDUAL NAME NUMBERS 57 

earth and sky, a green earth to live upon and a blue 
sky that tells you that just above the intellect there is 
a plane of spirit that will open to you when intellect 
can go no further and your higher self claims the 
wisdom that lies there ready when you shall have 
grown into a knowledge of its presence. This is the 
work found in the blue vibration. The green shows 
you the green foliage of earth and the banks of com- 
merce. To own land and to appropriate it for self 
and family is the desire of a person working in the 
4 vibration. If you have passed the 4, as shown by 
having it in your name, do not let your past propen- 
sities govern you. The birth vibration is the one in 
which to gain the things you came to seek. 

Your larynx is either your strongest or weakest 
part. When living in harmony, the voice of No. 4 is 
capable of a sweetness unknown to other vibrations. 
When disgruntled, it is most unpleasant. 

Your gems are the emerald and bloodstone; the 
green stone speaks for the earth's harmony, the red 
for the brotherhood of all humanity, which is a dif- 
ficult thing for a 4 to grasp. 

Your minerals, those that predominate in your 
body, if your name is 4, are coal, ochre and silver. 

You understand what coal does ? It is one of the 
world's principle motive powers and supplies heat and 
light to homes. This is your kind of work. You 
will work for silver dollars and should use silver 



58 the: philosophy of" numbers 

articles as much as you desire — the metal belongs to* 
you. 

Your flower is the fuchsia. This fragile flower 
has a lesson for you. 

Your odors are patchouly and caprice. 

Your birds are robin and blue- jay. These are 
hardy, self-reliant travelers. 

Your higher self is in sympathy with the music 
of Haydn and Wagner. 

Your trees are hemlock and coffee. The study 
of these trees will help you to understand the vibra- 
tions of your own body. 

Your fruits are strawberry and pineapple. 

Your vibration shows no musical instrument ex- 
cept the guitar. 

Your guardian angel is St. Bartholomew. 

Your patron saint is St. Luke. 

One of your symbols is a star. 

A person working in the 4 vibration (birth num- 
ber), comes to work and gains intellectual knowledge. 
He should graduate from all the schools and colleges 
possible. When he passes on, in later incarnations, 
he will carry with him this knowledge and it will ap- 
pear as wisdom. After the soul has once received a 
thorough intellectual training, it is seldom born again 
under circumstances where this can be repeated. It 
does not wish it nor need it; it has had it and now 
another quality needs attention. 



READING INDIVIDUAL NAME NUMBERS 59 

If the necessary environment to progress were 
not selected by the Spirit, the soul when blinded by 
earth dust, might waste precious time. 
No. 5. 

If your name digit is 5, you have passed that 
vibration and have stored up knowledge as ma- 
terial to draw upon. If your birth vibration is 5, 
you are seeking the knowledge contained in it. If 
you have passed it, you have stored away knowledge 
of the G note and are ready to begin upon the gamut 
of sound just above the lower octave. Your note is 
bold and daring, so is your life bold and filled with 
events of short duration. Your wheel of life turns 
so rapidly in its cycle, you are often forced to won- 
der what the next event will be. The reason for this 
is, you have passed the intellectual plane of 4 and 
stand upon the threshold of the realm of spirit. The 
tense grip upon material things has been relaxed, and 
glimpses of the pink light, which is your color, flash 
upon you, while like a happy child you look out upon 
the new scene of life. 

Your mind wanders in many directions, gather* 
ing from every source that which entertains and in- 
structs. The glimpse of the unseen, just beyond, fills 
you with longings. Sometimes you become so deter- 
mined to enter this realm, that you force your en- 
trance by will power and become involved in all the 
horrors of Black Magic. 



60 THE PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

If you live at your highest, you will generally 
know the thoughts of others, but will not try to enter 
the Holy of Holies of another soul. Of all vibra- 
tions, yours is the most charming and fascinating. 
It is so adaptable. When an unpleasantness arises, 
No. 5 seldom injures or hates, but simply turns its 
thoughts in other directions. Many marriages are lia- 
ble to happen. Money comes and goes. As the fast 
revolving wheel turns in its course, the pink light may 
be obscured and another experience will offer. If 
you are living in your vibration you will accept ex- 
perience. If you live alone and are having a monoto- 
nous life, you are losing the lessons of this incarnation. 
To concentrate, to go often into the silence, is 
the safe-guard of your vibration. 

Your mouth, pancreas and arteries are either your 
strongest or weakest parts. 

The gems you should possess, if your name digit 
is 5 and buy if that is your birth digit, are the tor- 
quoise, carbuncle and sardonyx. 

Your mineral is clay — it takes many forms and 
is not injured by use. 

Your flowers are the sweet smelling carnation, 
sweet-pea and migonette, all of them being like the 
fascinating 5 character. 

Your birds are the cuckoo, wren and flamingo. 
Study their character and the study will reveal to you 
much of yourself. 



READING INDIVIDUAL NAME NUMBERS 61 

Your composers are Franz Lizt and Rubenstein. 

Your fruits are cherry, lemon, cranberry and ap- 
ple. 

Your instruments are the trumpet and the viola. 

Your guardian angel is Phauwell. 

Your patron saint is St. Gregory. 

One of your symbols is the triangle. 
No. 6. 

If your name digit is 6, you may have passed 
the 4, and 5 vibrations and thereby gathered the ex- 
perience needful for your development at that time. 
But this does not mean that you have necessarily as- 
similated all the wisdom found in these vibrations. 

If your name is Emma, or any other name which 
vibrates 5, you will know you have made the develop- 
ment of that vibration, but if your name as a whole 
shows the digit 6, you will meet the events of life as 
a 6, when an emergency arises, even if you have a 
name like William Bartlett, of which William vi- 
brates 7 and Bartlett 8, each name vibrating higher 
than you do as a whole. You will in this case, no 
doubt, get the whole strength of this lower vibra- 
tion which will enable you to accomplish work you 
could not do in any other vibration. Your soul has 
grown in this manner, showing its own eternal wis- 
dom. 

6 is attuned to A, If your name digit is 6 you 
know the meaning of the A note. If 6 is your birth 



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digit, strike this note upon a well tuned instrument 
until you can use it correctly with the voice, and listen 
for the return message. See it in company with your 
colors, orange, scarlet and heliotrope. If 6 is your 
birth digit, they are the colors that welcomed you to 
.earth; if 6 is your name number, they are friends of 
the past and their memory lingers in every part of 
your nature. 

In the orange vibration you find power, 
'Strength and adaptation to earth life. The reds are 
limited to scarlet, which is bright and shows how 
strongly a 6 can feel. Heliotrope is the color of the 
'highest parenthood and the purest love for children. 
It has a psychic foresight, and when this color is held 
to, the servile work, of family cares is lightened. 

You should never labor as does one who is work- 
ing in the 4 vibration. You represent the Saturday 
of the world's days when the work is almost finished. 
You should fit everything in its place and do so joy- 
ously; When you fail to find joy in your work, it 
would be better to stop working, until in the silence 
you have once more found your souFs self, in whom 
-all joy abounds. If you are living in the 6th vibration, 
*any work you may do, in any vocation of life, will be 
:a failure unless it is done with cheerfulness. Those 
living in the 4 vibration may make the air blue with 
.discord and succeed after a fashion, but it is not so 
*with you. 



READING INDIVIDUAL NAME NUMBERS 63 

^ou should always be dressed with care and pre- 
cision; be fond of dainty effects and colors, lifting 
your especial colors of orange, scarlet and heliotrope 
Into their lighter shades, yet always keeping their true 
• ? tones. 

You should know coming events before they 
;reach you, and .prepare calmly for their coming, al- 
ways remembering that what appear as enemies may 
'be friends in disguise. If you cannot do all this, some 
^channel of your vibration is closed, and your life- 
work and your enjoyment in it are thereby limited. 
'You should not seek to penetrate the future, for your 
"life-work lies in doing the work under your hand. 

The strongest and weakest parts of your body are 
your kidneys, arms, cells and veins. 

Your gems are topaz, diamond, onyx and jasper. 
"If your name digit is 6, you should be strong enough 
rto draw them to yoa; if your birth digit is 6, you 
^should purchase them. 

Your mineral is borax. 

Your flowers are tube-rose, laurel and chrysan- 
themum. 

Your odor is japonica. 

Your birds are the bunting, gold-finch and falcon. 

The composer whose music has a message for 
; you is Schubert. You may remember that his muisc, 
Tbef ore ] he received any musical education, was su- 
rperiontO' other masters Milder like conditions. 



64 THE PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

Your fruits are the orange, quince and mulberry. 
• The musical instruments you have used, if your 
name number is 6, and should now study if your birth 
vibration is 6, are the bass viol, clarionet and the tam- 
bourine. 

Your guardian angel is Michael, meaning " Who 
is like God." 

Your patron saint is St. Denis. 

One of your symbols is a crescent, an emblem of 
the new life. 

No. 7. 

If your name digit is 7 and you have a higher 
vibration in individual parts of your name, as an 8 
or 22, you have evidently come to finish work that to 
your higher self seemed unsatisfactory. If there is 
no 11 or 22 in your name vibration, you are now 
ready to enter the higher gamut of free vibrations. 

You are in the 7 period of rest and reflection and 
will ever be a mystery to those with whom you come 
in close contact. They will never understand that you 
open only the channel it is necessary for you to learn 
from or to receive into, and it is always solely from 
your own volition that any channel is opened. 

When you wish you can pour out treasures more 
lavishly than any other vibration, but when the end is 
served, you put on the seal again, and no power can 
force you again to open yourself. Your Sunday has 
come. 



READING INDIVIDUAL NAME NUMBERS 65 

You will always be able to do any kind of work 
set before you and to do it in a finished manner. 

You possess a Sunday air, and should always 
be dressed daintily, as one is when going to the little 
chapel with stained glass windows, which keep out 
the bright sunlight from the altar. 

You are refined and bear always an air of ele- 
gance, if you are living in your own vibration. 

You should always be competent to do tasks not 
requiring too much grasp, as 7 is not entirely free 
from the limited gamut of vibrations. Yet should 
your highest number be a 7, it will be sufficient to 
enable you to meet every task brought before you by 
your higher self. 

You can do the best work for yourself and others 
in an individual way, as it is hard for one living in 
your vibration to give satisfaction to a partner, for 
the reasons already given. 

You are a finisher of all kinds and in this will 
succeed. Finish everything that presents itself to your 
own satisfaction and it will be well done, as you are 
critical and possess the inner quietness of the Sab- 
bath Day. 

When you live for self and disregard a Higher 
Self, the opposite of all this will occur. A work day of 
unrest will take possession of you and you will be in- 
clined to babble constantly of trifling things, which 
condition will destroy both health and happiness. Cor- 



65 THE PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

rect this by throwing all the force of your soul to the 
aid of your higher self instead of to the physical self. 

Sometimes you may have to work at hard and 
servile work and only a 7 knows the humiliation of 
this; but when this condition is graciously accepted, 
this vibration is usually finished and a higher one 
takes its place. 

Your strongest and weakest parts are your heart, 
legs, stomach, duodenum and ears. 

The gem you should possess is the agate. 

Your minerals are platinum, asbestos, lime and 
salt. 

Your flowers are the poppy, geranium, hyacinth 
and sun-flower. 

Your health-bringing odor is geranium. 

Your birds are the hawk, sea-gull, sky-lark and 
warbler. 

Your composers are Christopher Willibold and 
Brahms. 

Your trees are the sycamore and fern. 

Your fruits are the peach and pomegranate. 

Your instrument is the lyre. 

Your guardian angel is Raphael Cherubim, which 
is, however, purely symbolical and means an attendant 
or guardian rather than a messenger. 

Your patron saint is St. Barbara. 

One of your symbols is a heart. 

If your name digit is 7, you should be strong 



READING INDIVIDUAL NAME) NUMBERS 67 

enough to draw these objects to you as gifts ; if your 
birth digit is 7, buy them and surround yourself with 
them. 

Your musical note is B. Be able to strike it with 
your voice at any time and use it to expel a full breath. 
Listen for the return vibration and catch its meaning. 

Your colors are steel, brick, and magenta. You 
can as well select a pure color from 9 which is in ac- 
cord with 7. 



CHAPTER XII 

Free Numbers — 8, 9, 11, 22 
No. 8. 

THIS number is the beginning of a broader and 
stronger vibration. The pendulum of life swings 
with broad, clear sweeps from opposite sides of 
what men call good and evil. So broad and aggres- 
sive is its action that those bearing it are generally 
strongly felt in a community. 

8 stands for body, 9 for soul and 11 for spirit, 
making the Divine Trinity. They are called strong 
numbers because they show characters stored with 
knowledge who are capable of possessing the Cos- 
mic Consciousness. They are the ones who can 
look out from the strength within themselves and rea- 
lize the Unity of Life. They can feel the spiritual 
kinship of all things from the mineral up through 
each link in life's chain until they claim the character 
of the Nazarene. 

If the digit of your name is 8, you\ have received 
as a reward for faithfulness in the past the power to 
open the vibration of Cosmic Consciousness. This 
means freedom ; it means that you can have glimpses, 
in an emergency, of the things needed for yourself 

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FR££ NUMBERS 69 

and others. It is a slight turning away of the mist 
which makes you see through a glass darkly, and be- 
hind it lies the wealth of the Universe. 

You can always have this power when your de- 
sire is unselfish, for an 8 is his brother's keeper, and 
to succeed you must know how to live in this vibration 
so as to seek for others all the blessings you seek for 
yourself. 

When you realize that this has already been 
gained in the past and that you can again bring it into 
activity, a great victory will have been gained. It is 
like drawing a check on your bank of freedom. When 
you do not live in this way, your bondage is pitiable. 
Your higher self will rack and disturb you until all 
your surroundings fail to give you pleasure, and the 
fear of poverty never leaves you. You were intended 
for an investor, to gain money for others as well as 
for yourself; to build houses for others under your 
personal care; to clothe people in such a tactful man- 
ner that even the helped forget the clothes came from 
your bounty. 

Look for no return. Work for the race and not 
for the individual. 

It is not easy for those living in limited vibra- 
tions to understand this, but you can, if you will look 
to the higher self, which always longs to aid you and 
will help you to understand the joy of right living 
which lies stored in your freed character. 



70 THE PHILOSOPHY OF" NUMBERS 

You would be a good corporation lawyer, also a 
good physician. You should build hospitals and sani- 
tariums and help the inmates to enjoy life. 

You should see that your family is properly pro- 
vided for, as it is the tendency of the world to beg 
of an 8, something of the same feeling moving with 
them with which they implore God, which vibrates 
to 8. People are always saying " Give, give," and 
then forgetting to give thanks. But you must not ex- 
pect gratitude and must give even before you are 
asked. ■ 3 

If you are poor, change your thoughts and meth- 
ods. Poverty does not belong to you, and only selfish- 
ness or a failure to recognize the right can bind you. 

Your astral note is high C; from it others build 
their own melody. 

If your name does not vibrate to an 8, 9, 11 or 22 
and you have a birthpath of 8, you will know what the 
struggle for a life of liberty means. You are a brave 
soul to work in a stronger vibration than has ever been 
made in the past, and even if your life should seem 
strewn with failures, they may not be really failures, 
but only friends in gloomy dress helping you to make 
the 8th vibration. This when made (supposing your 
birth vibration is 8 and you have not a name with a 
strong number) will so change your character that 
you will no longer be able to exist under a false vibra- 
tion and in some way you will change your name. 



FREE NUMBERS 71 

Until this is accomplished, you can not make yourself 
what you are not. When the world accepts the name 
with a higher vibration you have earned it. Before 
you gain it, you will not try to change your name, from 
a lack of inclination. 

Should 8 be your name vibration or one part of 
your name vibration, the opal is assocciated with you 
to that extent and should be recognized. If your birth 
digit is 8, the gem should be bought and worn; it is 
a fellow traveler in your journey through life. Should 
your name digit be 8 or one part of your name, you 
have somewhere in the past been associated with this 
gem. 

If you live at your highest, those things which 
have been associated with you in the past, as shown 
by your name vibration, should come to you by love 
and without money. 

Study the composition of the opal, it will help 
you to understand the 8 vibration. 
No. 9. 

If your name vibration is 9, you have made much 
the same realization of the Cosmic Consciousness re- 
lated of the 8; but the action is slightly different as 
the odd numbers differ somewhat from the. even. 
The odd numbers, as 3, 5, 7, 9, deal more with the 
realm of mind. The even numbers, 2, 4, 6, and 8, 
can be divided to form material partnerships and deal 
more with the bodies of men and with their homes. 



72 TH£ PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

A 3 always expresses the condition about him; 
when his environment does not please him he removes 
himself to different environment. You as a 9 have 
latent three times the strength of the 3, and are a 
power to express good or evil What appears evil 
to the world may not appear as evil to you, as you 
have the wisdom of the cosmic knowing. You hold 
to what seems to you good, let the world clamor as 
it will. 

It would be well for every 9 to go daily to the 
source of all good and ask help to express only the 
good. 

You are in the vibration of mind; the world is 
weary of toil and desires pleasure. You are conscious 
of this desire, and in your strong power you clear the 
lower vibration, and in so doing temptations of all 
kinds come to you. They do not originate with you, 
but belong to the world, and if you allow them to enter 
your vibration you are liable to catch the spirit of de- 
bauch — this is the weakness of your 9th vibration. 
The strength you came to gain lies in this overcoming. 
You feel the world is crying for more love; you feel 
its heartbreak and can express what it desires. People 
soon come to feel your sympathy and give you love 
unstinted. You can hold so much love in your envi- 
ronment that no ill either of the body or spirit can 
enter there. 

A person in a lower vibration may perhaps have 



FREE numbers 73 

the same influence through love that you have, but 
they gain it by an effort while to you love comes as 
unconsciously as breath. 

A digit of 8, 9, 1 1, or 22 will show this character, 
if one of these digits is the full name or one of the 
names. If they are in the birth vibration, the person 
is working to gain what you already have stored in 
your character. 

To deal with humanity is the work of all 9s. It 
means the world's surface, and the world will be bet- 
tered by the projection of yourself when you are living 
at your highest. You will never be happy until you 
recognize the Unity of Life and the Universal Broth- 
erhood of Man. You can do this much more easily 
than a weaker vibration. If you can not do so, ask 
jour soul to teach you, and it will do so from knowl- 
edge stored in its own recesses. 

You can succeed in expressing or reproducing 
any work in art or music to which you care to give 
expression. 

You would make a just and humane judge. 

Your views are rather broad for an orthodox 
clergyman, but your congregation would love you 
and follow your teaching and the dogmas of the 
church doctors would be forgotton in the broad faith 
of God's love. 

You would make a dearly loved physician, mag- 
netic and skillful. 



74 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

You would also make a successful author of 
occult works. 

Persons bearing an 8, 9, 1 1, or 22 as digits of 
names are not confined to single notes in the musical 
scale — they have, in a degree, conquered them all. 

Your individual note, which has been especially 
conquered, is D. This note, struck or sung, should 
open up to you the memory of the past. We do not 
know how far back memory can go, but we do know 
there are treasures in your being that this note can 
bring to light. If met, the musical note of your birth 
vibration will some time show in your character and 
be added to your name. 

If your name digit is higher than your birth digit,, 
you may appear as a dull or commonplace character. 
This is in consequence of the choice made by your 
eternal part before you came to earth, in order to give 
you the experience needed for your soul's true growth. 
When the earth dust drops from our eyes, we will all 
know that all vibrations are equally good in God's- 
sight, where high or low, great and small, are quali- 
ties unrecognized. 

If you have a limited birth vibration, as 4, 5, 6, or 
7, do not allow yourself longer to feel their limitation. 
You have hidden within your being, the power to feef 
the unity of all things the Creator made good. With- 
in you dwell the minerals you vibrate to, all the veg- 
etable world found in your vibration, besides all the 



FREE NUMBERS 75 

insects, etc., which are either your friends or denote 
some weakness to be overcome. 

A 9 vibrates to peacock. This bird covers more 
of the earth's surface than any other bird, It is an 
unusual creation; study it well in regard to the law 
of Opposites, Good and Evil. 

If your birth vibration is 9 and your name is not 
so high, then have patience with yourself while you 
are earning this much loved free vibration. Study 
moderation, as in excess lies the pitfall of all high 
vibrating individuals. 

No 11. 

If your name digit is 11, you have made one 
entire round in the great wheel of life and only the 
immortal part of you knows the many unsuccessful 
attempts made before you won this highest of vibra- 
tions, 11. Your memory may run back to the time 
when you served as a priest in the temple and offered 
burnt sacrifice for the sins of the world. To-day you 
may be working in another vibration as shown by 
your birth path. 

If you have not yet made the nth vibration, but 
are striving to make it, as shown by your birth path, 
then know your body is your temple and you wish to 
vibrate to the Royal Priesthood and to Melchizedek, 
and you desire to know the laws of the spiritual world 
as well as you do those of the natural world. _ 

If your name digit is n, within your being is 



76 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

stored the memory of all these truths, and yet, to-day, 
you may be cursing the God whom you have acknowl- 
edged as the mighty God of truth. You may be cling- 
ing to your family with the tenacity of an animal, when 
the priest knew nothing beyond the Brotherhood of 
Man. The priests were supported by the gifts of the 
people and were not taxed, and yet you may be giving 
all your attention to material gain. The greatest 
misers are found among the us, when they should 
take thought of nothing but spiritual truth. If this 
occurs in one whose birth path is 1 1, he is losing the 
value of this incarnation and searing and blackening 
the soul he loves. 

The reason these high vibrations who have made 
or almost made the entire round, sometimes appear as 
such high-handed sinners, is that when the pendulum 
of life swings to the extreme of spiritual truth, its 
return journey is strongest at the opposition of what 
we call good and evil. These souls may have allowed 
ambition or spiritual pride to rule them and so have 
failed to make an 8 or 9 vibration. They may have 
partly made it, as parts of their name show. These 
souls will return and return to make the perfect round 
of life, 8, 9, 11. They appear illy adjusted to life and 
perplexed by its eternalities. When the journey to 
the nth vibration has been made in a harmonious 
manner, its beauty shows in every act of life. If you 
have made the nth and are serving in a lower vibra- 



FREE NUMBERS 77 

tion and are enjoying life, then be sure your past jour- 
neys have been profitable in God's sight. It is the 
ultimate desire of every soul to develop into a perfect 
Trinity of Body, Soul and Spirit, which growth is 
shown by an 8, 9, 11, or 22. When these vibrations 
have been made God will use you for the interest of 
the race. 

Your musical numbers are the octave of C — all 
the harmonies found in this octave upon any instru- 
ment. 

No. 22. 

If 22 is the digit of your name, you have reached 
the nth vibration by a different route from that 
followed by n, but the result is much the same. Your 
journey has been made by the even numbers instead 
of by the odd, as in 3, 5, 7, and 9. 

You understand the physical needs of humanity — 
homes, hospitals and churches — and you carne to finish 
the temple called the body, to overcome its weaknesses. 
Very few 22s have strong bodies. Many have stooped 
shoulders showing the burden bearing of the past. 
This is your time to rebuild your soul's body and to 
show others the beauty of a perfect temple for the 
spirit. 

When a 22 falls it is usually from love of mate- 
rial gain and not from love of frolic. You have a 
beautiful, strong vibration ; live in its highest part and 



78 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

;you will know what the great co-ordination of the uni- 
verse means. 

Your musical numbers are the octave of D — all 
the octave notes of D upon any instrument will tell 
you much of the meeting of spirit and matter ; of the 
parting of the ways which took place in 2, found ex- 
pression in 3 and its ultimate in 22. In 8 you freed 
yourself from bondage to the body and in 22 you have 
grown to behold the vision beyond the intellect. 

No one can be a 22 who has not passed through 
the experiences of 4, 6, 2, 8, 9, 1 and probably all the 
other numbers. But the growth of strength has been 
made on the even side. When you reached 8 you 
understood the world in its fulness, but you longed for 
the love of men as this was beyond you, and so you 
passed into 9. You then longed for the satisfaction 
of spirit and may have passed into the 1 1 and obtained 
universal knowledge in that way; but more probably 
you passed directly from 9 to 22 as you now had 
stored the love of humanity and 22 makes you desire 
to unite, as does water, the souls and bodies of men. 



CHAPTER XIII 



What Have I Been Doing in the Past 

TO find what you have been doing in the dim ages 
of the past, set to music the vibration of your 
name, find the harmonies and play them upon 
every instrument you can use. Hum the tune when 
alone ; it has strange power and may open the door to 
past vibrations and make your body comprehend your 
soul's work. Also memorize and sing your birth 
number. Do not change the notes, but the time is 
not limited. Do not change the position of the notes 
as their order was chosen for your life teaching in 
this incarnation by your higher self. Repeat the 
motif in all possible ways. 

We can see that musical instruments vibrate to 
certain numbers; judging with earth bound eyes, we 
conclude that a person bearing the same vibration as 
an instrument has at some time in the past conquered 
the technique of that instrument or in some way been 
xelated to it. By means of the birth digit we know the 
place in the great choir the soul is now occupying. 

If your name vibrates n, you have the power to 
ttake any or every part in the great chorus, and yet 

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80 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

your body may be so illy adjusted to the higher vibra- 
tion, caused either by disobedience to the law of life 
or by loitering by the wayside, that you seem no more 
than a wreck. But all who possess the free numbers 
8, 9, ii, or 22, are always greater than they seem. 

The key-note of life is to be used to allow the 
soul to make the body a free channel of expression 
for the Spirit of the Divine. No vibration should be 
closed that leads to anything in earth, sky or air, but 
hands, feet, tongue and thoughts should all be perfect 
vehicles of expression. The source within must be 
kept pure to allow the Trinity of Father, Son and 
Holy Spirit to possess your body. Then will you be 
kept in perfect health, and inasmuch as God rules, be 
able to control your environment. Otherwise you 
will become depleted in vitality by the division of self 
and suffer ill health and disease. 

Let this prayer ever rule your mind, "Teach me, 
Oh Father, Son and Spirit, thy spiritual law, and I 
will walk therein." 






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CHAPTER XIV 



The Music of the Trees 

RS. CHILDS, in letters from New York, says, 
" Every flower writes music in the air," and 
every tree that grows has a note sounding 
within its heart. Do you doubt it ? Try the willow 
and the oak, the elm and the poplar, and see if each 
has not its own peculiar sound waiting only for the 
master's hand to evoke sweet music. One of the most 
remarkable instruments ever invented gives proof of 
this. 

M. Guzikow was a Polish Jew, a shepherd in the 
service of a nobleman. From earliest boyhood music 
seemed to pervade his being. 

As he tended his flocks in the lonely fields he was 
ever fashioning reeds and flutes from trees that grew 
around him. He soon discovered that the tone of his 
flute varied according to the wood used. By degrees 
he came to know every tree by its sound, and the 
forests around him became to him an unawakened or- 
chestra. 

His skill in playing upon his rustic flutes attracted 
attention. The nobility invited him to their houses, 

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and he became a favorite of fortune as men never 
wearied of hearing him. 

But soon his health failed and physicians told him 
he must give up the flute or die. It was a frightful 
sacrifice to ask, because music to him was life. 

But his old familiarity with trees of the forest 
came to his aid. He took four round sticks and 
bound them together with bands of straw. Across 
these he arranged numerous pieces of round smooth 
wood of different kinds. To the eye they were irreg- 
ularly arranged, for some jutted beyond the straw 
foundation at one end and some at the other, in and 
out, in apparent confusion, the whole being fastened 
together with twine as men lash rafts. 

This instrument was laid on an ordinary table 
and struck with two ebony sticks. Rude as the instru- 
ment was Guzikow brought from it such rich and 
liquid melody that it seemed to take the heart of man 
on its wings and bear it aloft to the Throne of God. 
Those who have heard it describe it as far exceeding 
even the miraculous warblings of Paganini's violin. 

The Emperor of Austria heard it and forthwith 
took the Polish peasant into his own especial service. 

Before this gifted being was placed a wooden 
table on which rested his rude looking instrument, 
which he touched with ivory sticks. At first the 
sound was only that of struck wood and the swelling 
of the orchestra completely drowned its voice. But 



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gradually the wonderful instrument arose above all 
other sounds, clear, swelling, warbling like a nightin- 
gale. The orchestra arose higher, higher, but above 
all swelled the rich tone of the magic instrument, 
liquid and strong like the song of the skylark. Those 
who heard it listened in delighted wonder that the trees 
could be made to speak thus under the touch of 
Genius. 



CHAPTER XV 



Of What Practical Use Are Colors and Notes 

ANYTHING to be of use must touch, at some 
point, the material plane of the individual. 
The force that produces the colors that en- 
viron a person is the force or activity called the soul, 
which is the eternal part and consequently the sub- 
jective or esoteric part. In order to unfold, the soul 
is largely dependent upon the body. The body, in 
turn, is dependent upon the strength or spiritual 
activity of the soul, which when properly attuned 
to body can reach into the unseen world close to 
the presence of the Creator, where is neither yes- 
terday nor to-morrow, nothing but the eternal 
Now. The nearness of a soul to its creator de- 
pends entirely upon its growth, as it advances only 
as far as it needs to go. When it has assimilated the 
highest spiritual meaning of any environment it has 
power to advance higher into the spiritual world. To 
this added strength the body must be attuned, like a 
good instrument, in order to be able to give true ex- 
pression in the objective world. The body must har- 
monize all vibrations, called by men high and low, but 

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in the upper realm, where the soul functions, there is 
neither high nor low, but every deed performed, when 
guided by the highest of which the individual is capa- 
ble, is rewarded. 

Every power the boundless soul contains must be 
met and harmonized before the perfect man is evolved. 
Men call Jesus the ideal man, and consciously or un- 
consciously, this is the goal toward which they are 
working. We aid the soul when we surround the 
body with harmonious environments. 

When a pleasant event happens to you, remember 
that by good thoughts or deeds, sometime in the past, 
you have opened the channel for its reception. If the 
event is unpleasant, it is a friend come to show you 
some past weakness. Clear the earth plane of that 
vibration by making just recompence, then ascend to 
the soul plane with your account of money, pride or 
injustice and ask the God within you if the debt is 
fully paid. Do not refuse the lash. After this is 
done, ask the All-Good to take it from your environ- 
ment and it will go and never return. The sunshine 
of good will ever after use that channel to bring you 
peace and goodwill. This vibration will then ring 
out its note of joy and its color will be pure and 
bright. 

To find the character of any event, great or small, 
get its vibration. For instance, suppose you have 
committed the sin of lying. 



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1 vibrates to 3 
i vibrates to 9 
e vibrates to 5 

17 = 8. 

The digit of lie is 8. 8 is a free number and to 
reach it in its fulness all channels of your being must 
be opened. 

Its spiritual structure is expressed by the vowels 
e and i. The i means unbridled expression upon all 
planes, the e means the vibratory action of the mind. 
The esoteric colors of the letters are red and pink. 
When you clear the vibratory channel of the lie you 
make your red and pink glow with spiritual light and 
the canary color, which is the objective force which 
carried the lie to the outer world, hovers over you like 
a benediction, its note, in a manner, freed. When you 
have overcome, strike the note of C — the keynote of 
8 — and let it vibrate its truth through your body. The 
opposite of lie, truth, vibrates to 6, and its note is A- 
This does not mean that 6 is true and 8 is false. It 
rather shows the strong vibration of 8 dares and ex- 
presses all things, and only from its internal strength 
can the fountain keep the outer streams clear and 
clean. 

When the atmosphere of self seems to hang like 
a heavy pall about you, know that the soul desires the 
body to help it clear some vibration which has not 



PRACTICAL USE OP COLORS AND NOTES 87 

been opened or which has become clogged by forces 
out of harmony with the Trinity of Body, Soul and 
Spirit. 

Be perfectly sure if you had not attracted that 
which is present, you would not have it. If the soil is 
not prepared, the seed can not take root. No evil can 
approach you unless the evil within your own heart 
attract it. Do not repine or mourn, arise and face the 
obstacle. Find its vibration, its color, note and qual- 
ity. Set about removing it with prayer and just ac- 
tion, making reparation where necessary, and you will 
clear the colors of your vibration. This can not be 
done effectually unless you work upon all planes of 
action. Do not shirk. Meet the emergency with 
courage. God has no needs, and when you realize 
yourself as only equal to your brother man, you then 
know what God means. 

When this is done, find your life song. Sing, 
whistle and play it until you have mingled its notes 
with all the universe. 

When the obstacle has been met and you have 
forgiven yourself and forgotten it, then its sting will 
be removed from the minds of others. So long as you 
keep it in mind and talk about it, its lesson has not been 
learned and it may return in another form. When 
you have made honest reparation to God and man, 
then forgive yourself. 



CHAPTER XVI 

Colors and Thdir Individual Meaning 

No i — Seeks to be a flame — a light in dark places 
and also at times acts as a consuming fire. 

No. 2 — Gold — seeks to express rest. 

No. 3 — Seeks to express any color or thing that 
presents itself. 

No. 4 — The blue seeks to express illumination and 
the green consciousness through intellect. 

No. 5 — Pink — Seeks to express power, life, re- 
finement, harmony and a study of that region just 
beyond sight. 

No. 6 — Scarlet, heliotrope and orange seek to ex- 
press wealth, rest and motion, knowledge and a for- 
getfulness of disdain. 

No. 7 — Brick and steel, seeks to march and honor 
those who test the Trinity. 

No. 8 — Canary, seeks to express mirth, space, 
charm, hope, zeal, religion, the highest. 

No. 9 — Red, seeks to express light, stillness, love 
and not to impose upon the menial. 

No. ii — White, black, yellow and violet, seeks to 
express wisdom, taste and to walk not with the odious. 

No. 22 — Cream, seeks to touch all things. 
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CHAPTER XVII 



To Find the Controlling Color in Your Number 

THE strongest color of any one's vibration is the 
one nearest the fountain of spirit found within 
the fit temple called the body. The soul, which 
is one with both the spirit and the body, is the builder 
of the body and through it sends out its vibrations and 
reveals them as colors to those whose eyes are attuned 
to the vibration of the finer forces. Others feel their 
presence, especially when there is a conflict of colors 
caused by the inharmony of the individual. When this 
occurs, and a weaving or dullness hangs over you like 
a mantle, take the control color of your vibration and 
realize it as the centre of your physical being and as 
the link which connects you with the great chain of 
love force which surrounds all things in God's em- 
brace. Grasp the color firmly and reverently, and 
breath from that point of your body just back of the 
stomach, known as the solar plexus, pushing out your 
color with will. Think of it as the offer of a friendly 
hand. Those who are vibrating the same color and 
force, will feel it when it reaches their environment. 
Then take the next color and the next, pushing 
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90 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

them out to the circumference of your wheel of life, 
never losing the presence of the stronger, until you 
bring their strength to the color of your birth vibra- 
tion, which you should recognize as the color in which 
you are to find new strength. Keep your colors free 
from confusion — the higher the vibration the more 
strength it contains, and the more useful it is for all 
purposes of life. When its force is felt as peace, your 
vibration is at its highest and the desires of your soul 
are being met, and life on all planes of existence is 
being adjusted; not only for yourself, for when your 
desires shall be completely realized, the Universal 
Brotherhood of Man will be known, and you are now 
helping along the race by vibrating from within. 

Individual life progresses in cycles of greater or 
less duration and these cycles are expressed by the 
numbers of the name. The vowels in the name show 
the hidden strength not seen upon the objective side 
of life. 

As an example we will make a chart for John 
Wanamaker, who was born July 1 1, 1838. He is deal- 
ing with the strong vibrations of objective and spir- 
itual life and the desire of this brave soul is to win. 

John vibrates to 2. 

Wanamaker to 6, making the digit of his name 8. 

July is the seventh month, the digit of the day is 
11, the digit of the year is 2, making his birth numbers 
9, II. 



the: controlling color in your name: 91 

Somewhere in past lives he won the lowest of 
the free vibrations 8, in some way overcoming the 
earth forces and getting a little of the soul yellow 
making canary. 

This 8 is the vibration that understands the world 
and its needs as does no other. Canary is the strong- 
est of John Wanamaker's colors and is the controlling 
point called the centre. The a or I in the vowel of 
his last name acts as flame of light illumining even 
the weak points. His next important color is gold 
from the 2 of John. Then the heliotrope, scarlet and 
orange from the o of John and from Wanamaker. 

When he gains any part of the strong free vibra- 
tions of his birth numbers he will assimilate the force 
of character gained from 9 and 11, which numbers he 
chose through which to work his way through life. 
But his canary constantly covers him as a cloud. 

The colors of his birth vibration, which he is try- 
ing to enter, are found in the outer circles. These are 
beneath him like a mighty ocean, over which he is 
trying to pass. (For particulars see " Balliett's Suc- 
cess Through Vibration.") 



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THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 




John Wanamake/s color scheme. Bom July n, 1838. 

NOTE. — In the chart the colors violet and yellow should change 
positions. 

A color scheme can be developed from one's own 
vibrations to be used in furnishing and dress. 



CHAPTER XVIII 



How to Find Your Life Song 

IF life is a state of activity and all things are vi- 
brating, then each thing must have its own rate 

of motion and its own key-note, or else chaos and 
not law would result. Each individual incarnation 
may have a different key-note or birth vibration in 
which lies the unrealized desires the soul wishes to 
gain. 

By complying with Nature's Laws you can vibrate 
to any musical key. 

The strength of the key to which you are now 
vibrating was made somewhere in the past and the 
memories of its victories is stored in the soul and re- 
vealed to men by the letters used in the name. By 
individual letters of the name we catch glimpses of 
cycles made and strength stored. 

Some brave souls boldly step out into birth-paths 
of whole octaves of sounds — found in n and 22, 
which are vibrating to the octaves C and D. When 
these are found in the birth-path and not in the name, 
always regard the bearer as an explorer in an un- 
known country to which he must adjust and harmonize 

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94 THK PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

himself or he will pass through life without his soul's 
approval and express an inharmonious environment. 

There is no better teacher than the God within. 
Let your own soul teach you; trust it, and know the 
thing you need is under your hand. When you fulfill 
the objective law and do your best, the thing you 
desire for your highest good will come to you in many 
different ways. Do not confine yourself to any one 
route. If that you desire does not come, something 
just above it will take its place. Simply do your best. 

There is no better way to open all the vibrations 
■of the body than to take your own name and birth 
number and use them as found in the chart. 

Your name holds for you the vibrations found 
in the past, within those boundaries were probably 
honors, riches and fame. Nothing but the victories 
of your incarnations are stored away, as only the acts 
of highest motive go into God's realm. 

So when you strike the chords of harmony, or 
those which are not complete, know that only the best 
of your past experiences can come to you by means 
of harmonious tones. 

Strike your own notes and let them vibrate 
through and through you, until closed brain cells are 
opened and memories of the past help you to reach 
higher planes in the present. Sing your birth song 
over and over until it becomes a well kown path lead- 
ing to your ideals. 



HOW TO FIND YOUR hl^t SONG 



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CHAPTER XIX 



The Esoteric Value of Numbers 

One contains the vowels o, e, which equal n — the 
strongest of all forces. 

Two contains the vowel o, which shows the ma- 
ternal quality lying within; it contains a wealth of 
earth's highest colors. 

Three contains the vowels e, e, of the value of I — 
showing the spirit of three is in the creative I. 

Four contains the vowels o, u, of the value of 7, 
showing the hidden strength of completion. 

Five contains the vowels i, e, numerical value 5, 
it is the same objectively as subjectively, but contains 
the free vowel of 9, which stands as an incentive for 
expression. 

Six contains the vowel i, value 9 — the esoteric 
side is higher than the objective — it calls for free ex- 
pression in a limited realm. 

Seven contains the vowels e, e, making 1. The 
sacred numbers I, 3, and 7 are hidden flames of in- 
ternal light. 

Bight contains the vowels e, i, making 5 ; nine 
also contains this same esoteric vibration of 5. As 

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eight and nine are free numbers, so the Christ body 
is present within the 8 and 9 lying unexpressed. 

Eleven contains the vowels e, e, e, making 6. 
This number is made of two 3's, giving it the power 
to express on the objective plane the spiritual truths 
for which 11 stands. 

Twenty-two contains the vowels e, o, of the value 
of 11 — a high priest hidden deeply within waiting 
to be called forth. 



CHAPTER XX 



The Esoteric Value of Gems 

THE spiritual strength of anything can be found 
by the vowels. 

Many things, like individuals, seem un- 
able to express the hidden strength of their true self. 
Others who are spiritually weak, are physically strong. 
The following will show the objective and the 
esoteric value of a few gems : 

No. i vibrates objectively to Moss-agate and 
Aqua Marine. 

Moss-agate contains the vowels o, a, a, e; the digit 
of the vowels being 4. This number with the I ex- 
presses the Moss-agate as a hidden flame of blue and 
green. 

Aqua Marine vibrates objectively to I. The vow- 
els are a, u, a, in Aqua, vibrating 5, and a, i, e in 
Marine, vibrating 6, making a total of 11. Esoterical- 
ly the Aqua Marine is a triple flame of red and pink 
and contains the spiritual strength of 11. 

No. 3 vibrates to Amethyst and Ruby objectively. 
The esoteric value of the Amethyst a, e, shows it 
to be a pink flame of 6th vibration and to be related 
to orange, scarlet and heliotrope. .-«...... 

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100 the: philosophy op numbers 

The Ruby is the same esoterically as objectively. 

No. 4 vibrates to Emerald. The esoteric value is 
found in e, e, a, a double pink flame vibrating to the 
highest of all human vibrations, that of n. It con- 
tains concealed within itself the spiritual accumulation 
of all jewels and expresses to the owner the strength 
of white, black, yellow or violet. 

No. 5 vibrates objectively to Turquoise. Its 
esoteric value lies in u, u, o, i, e, which as a whole 
vibrates 8 or canary. 

This gem holds hidden within itself the same 
colors and character that the opal objectively expresses. 
It is rich in colors of red, yellow and pink. It is not 
a flame which means a light, but is rich in qualities 
belonging to the unseen side of life. 

No. 6 Vibrates to Diamond. Its esoteric value 
lies in i, a, o, making the 7th vibration, the number 
of a complete earth. It is a flame of free red fire to- 
gether with orange, heliotrope and scarlet. This jewel 
holds within its flame the spiritual secrets of the earth. 

No. 7 vibrates to Agate. Its spiritual structure 
is shown in a, a, e, of 7 value. It vibrates the same 
upon the seen and unseen sides of life. It is a double 
pink flame and holds the possibilities of earth within 
its vibration. 

No. 8 vibrates objectively to Opal. Its esoteric 
strength is found in o, a, 7, the limited, complete earth 
vibration. 



the esoteric value of gems 101 

It expresses itself higher upon the seen than upon 
the unseen side of life, which may be a reason why 
it is sometimes considered a stone of ill omen. It 
lacks the hidden spiritual strength of some other 
jewels. Yet it is a flame of canary, heliotrope and 
scarlet and speaks upon the objective plane for a free 
body. It is mutely teaching Unity as it holds within 
itself these beautiful colors and sends them forth freely 
to the world seeking no return. 

No. 9 vibrates to Beryl-Ligure. Its esoteric value 
lies in the vowels e, i, u, e, which make the high 
spiritual vibration of 2.2, holding within itself the 
power of organization and the elevation of the race. 
It is strong upon all planes. It is not a flame, but 
has hidden colors of red, pink and cream in abundance. 

No. 11 vibrates objectively to Sapphire. Its hid- 
den strength is not equal to its objective value. Its 
vowels a, i, e, give the numerical value of 6. This 
number shows the only trace of the physical found in 
this spiritual gem. It vibrates to all the colors in the 
objective gamut, and holds within a flame of red and 
pink. 

No. 22 vibrates to Coral, but its esoteric value 
is only 7. It holds a hidden flame of cream, scarlet, 
orange and heliotrope. 



CHAPTER XXI 




Furnishing Rooms in Their Own Colors 

OOM No. i should be furnished in all shades 

of flame color. Select the many shades of 

harmonious color found in a flame of fire or 

light and blend them in the furnishing of this room. 

Remember that in a blue flame there are touches of 

silver. 

Room No. 2 should be furnished in all shades of 
gold, from the lightest yellow to dark tuscan gold. 
Let paper and furnishing be of mingled shades. The 
mystics say this is the color that evil cannot penetrate. 

No. 3 should express the colors best loved, or the 
colors of i and 2. No. 3 has no individual color vibra- 
tion, but expresses whatever is present, whether har- 
mony or the reverse. 

Room No. 4 should be furnished in either blue 
or green or a harmony of both. The metallic colors 
also vibrate to this number. 

Room No. 5 should be furnished in pink. It 
would be better to use the yellow pink shade, borrow- 
ing the orange from the vibration above, unless No. 4 
is stronger in your environment, in which case use 
the blue pinks. 

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FURNISHING ROOMS IN THEIR OWN CONORS 103 

Room No. 6 should be furnished in scarlet, orange 
and heliotrope, all of them, or the one loved best. 

Scarlet is most vital, orange is the color of power, 
and heliotrope is the color that shows glimpses of the 
life beyond sight to those prepared for the vision. 

Room No. 7 should be furnished in the shades 
of brick, magenta or steel. Choose from them silver 
gray and the shades of Italian red found in brick. 

Room No. 8 should be furnished in canary. As 
this is a free number it can also claim white, which 
can be added to furnishing, decoration or wood-work. 

Room No. 9 should be furnished in all shades of 
red, brown and purple. Being a free number it also 
claims white. 

No. 22 should be furnished in cream and white, 
but can take any of the n colors. 

Room No. II should be furnished in violet, yel- 
low, black or white. It can use any shade of these 
colors, or, in fact, can use any colors of any of the 
vibrations. 

You may expect strong events of all kinds in 
rooms 8, 9, 1 1, 22, as they possess strong vibrations. 
They will attract strong persons and it will be dif- 
ficult to separate people who have occupied them for 
any length of time. Great joy and happiness will be 
found in these rooms, or occasionally the pendulum 
of life may swing to the other extreme. 

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104 THE PHILOSOPHY OF" NUMBERS 

rooms furnished in your own colors and fewer acci- 
dents will occur in such rooms. 

If you can have two rooms for your own, fur- 
nish one for your name and the other for your birth 
digit, and if you can have but one, use your birth 
digit. 

If your name is n and your birth 8, choose a 9 
vibrating room, as these numbers can not be separated 
any more than can body, soul and spirit without a 
disruption of the physical law. One always attends 
the others. 

In furnishing public buildings or hotels, use the 
colors the rooms vibrate to. 



CHAPTER XXII 



The Colors and the Possibilities of the States, 

and the Character of the People 

They Attract 

PYTHAGORAS said, "Show me the alphabet 
of a nation, and I will tell you the character 

of its people. So we can know the strength of 
all things by their vibration, which shows forth as color. 

The vowels form the spiritual structure of the 
alphabet and by their appearance in a name we can 
read its esoteric possibilities. As man receives his 
strength from the Divine, so does the earth look to 
man for its development. 

The vibrations of separate states show their pos- 
sibilities. Their names were not accidents. 

The vowels in the name show the kind of people 
they attract. 

In studying the different states and countries, 
keep in mind the Law of Opposites, as taught by 
Pythagoras and explained in " Success Through 
Vibration." 

Tears and laughter are closely related and both 
express strong emotion. In the extremes of life, the 
pendulum may swing past the balance plane to that 

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106 TH£ PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

of high or low vibration. In an instant the shadows 
may turn to light or the light to darkness, and these 
extremes create the cyclones of the earth plane, but 
always a clearing of the mental atmosphere will fol- 
low when in the silence the still, small voice is heard. 

So we find nations and people with high vibrations 
clinging to the opposite of what they should represent. 

Take as an example Africa. This name vibrates 
to ii, which stands for the highest visible human 
advancement. Its colors are black, yellow, violet 
and white. We know it as darkest Africa, because 
it has now swung to the dark corner of its vibration. 
History tells us it was once one of the most advanced 
nations on the earth and the pendulum may again 
swing to the light at any moment. Black means 
unrealized desire, and when it turns once more to 
the light the black will give place to fulfillment. 

Its vowels are a, i, a, = i, 9, 1 — 11. This 
shows the same high vibration of spiritual strength 
at present unexpressed by its people. In the dark 
color it is now calling men of the high 11 vibration 
to seek homes there and live free, pure lives. 

Its possibilities are great, and when its degrada- 
tion is removed by the next swing of the pendulum, 
the people will once more, as they did centuries ago, 
represent a burning fire of richest red, purple and 
brown. The country has yellow, violet, black and 
white covering it like a luminous cloud. 



CHAPTER XXIII 



States That Vibrate i — Idaho, Michigan, Rhode 

Island, Connecticut, District oe Columbia, 

North Dakota, Indian Territory 

IDAHO as a state vibrates i. Its vowels are i, a. 
o, = 7. Original ideas will be developed in these- 

subjective states as they vibrate as a whole to 
1 or 10 and differ in their physical construction and 
possibilities as shown by the difference in their vowels. 
Persons whose name vibrates 1 and birth digit 7 will 
find something awaiting them in Idaho. It is a good 
state in which to prepare creative work. By its 9 it 
will attract the No. 9 people who see everything 
through the vital, inspirational colors of red from 
deepest shade to pink. 

These people will reap unexpected honors in this 
subjective state that as a whole vibrates higher than 
its people. 

It will also attract the i's (one's) who will either 
love it devotedly or hate it, as their vibration intensi- 
fies the feelings. 

These one's would do well to go into partner- 
ship with a 9 or a 6, as these numbers vibrate more 

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108 THE PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

strongly to the objective and can better bring forth 
the projects No. I formulates. 

No. 6 will also find plenty of work to employ 
their busy hands and minds in mothering the products 
of the earth. 

As a whole the people of Idaho will live as if it 
were the Sunday period of life. It lacks the active 4 
vibration. 

MICHIGAN 

Michigan as a state vibrates 1. Its vowels are 
i, i, a, also vibrating 1. This state attracts those 
vibrating red, purple and brown and they make this 
state a light to attract to the highest in speech and 
action. Yet their light is in a measure hidden by 
the fact that state and people vibrate the same esoteric 
number. 

Its prophets will find a better hearing in states 
that vibrate 8, 9, 11. Those who do not live at their 
highest in Michigan, will live entirely upon the sur- 
face of things. 

This, of all states, should be governed by the 
Law of Unity. 

RHODE ISLAND 



vibrate 3. 



Rhode Island vibrates 1. Its vowels o, e, i, a, 

ite 3. 

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and birth digit 3. These people will find they can 
concentrate in this state and bring out the latent 
possibilities of their intellect. 3 is the power of ex- 
pressing mind and bringing forth hidden treasures. 
Its people vibrate to a flame of gold. 

CONNECTICUT 

Connecticut vibrates 1. Its vowels are o, e, i, 
u, = 5, showing varied points of attraction for those 
who seek to dwell in the realm of mind. 

As a whole the people vibrate to 5 the number 
of metaphysical research and independent thought 
in carrying out certain principles. Its strong points 
of expression are shown in the vowels o and i. These 
attract inspirational money-makers, also those who 
have a strong love of state and home. 

Principles find a growing favor in this state. 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

District of Columbia vibrates 1, the number of 
Unity and is a principle rather than an objective in- 
stitution. It calls by its vowels i, i, o, o, u, i, a, to 
the most refined and conservative of all people the 7's. 
This is a complete number in limited vibration, and 
everything these people do, the buildings they con- 
struct, the monuments they build, will be likely to be 
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110 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

District of Columbia calls every class of people 
except the 5's represented by the vowel e. 

The three c/s will be liable to give free expres- 
sion to the artistic work of the 6's, it is a flame of 
red, orange, heliotrope and scarlet. 

NORTH DAKOTA 

North Dakota vibrates I ; Dakota vibrates 7. 
Why did this state separate from Dakota proper? 
The people are represented by two kinds of people, 
only, the o's, the inspirational workers and the i's, 
the creators. Dakota is 7, the most conservative of 
vibrations. It is probable that this progressive, go- 
ahead people felt bound and hampered when held 
back by the 7 vibration, so they formed a separate 
state, and North Dakota will make long strides ahead 
■ of the parent state. 

INDIAN TERRITORY 

Indian vibrates 4 and Territory 6, making 1 as 
the result of the union of the two classes of workers, 
the hard workers and the artistic workers. 

The people are represented by i, i, a, e, i, o, mak- 
ing 3. 

3 always expresses what it finds to express. In 

this case it must express Unity, and as this idea in a 

, state is a new one to the people of Indian Territory, 



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it is well that there are so many inspirational people 
among the inhabitants. 

The people it calls are of an unusually high class 
and the state should make giant strides. 

It is covered with a flame of red, heliotrope and 
orange. 



CHAPTER XXIV 



The State: That Vibrates 2 — Nevada 

NEVADA is the only state in the Union vibrat- 
ing to the golden-tinted second vibration. Its 
vowels are e, a, a, = 7. 
It calls and attracts those who are journeying 
through life in the 7 path with a name of 2. 

The state vibrates to matter and spirit and the 
vowels show more spirit than matter. 

The e shows the realm of mind lingers in the 
atmosphere of this date and those persons are hap- 
piest who yield to its influence, holding always to the 
power of the absolute. 

This state has no middle ground, it has neither 
white nor black, twilight or dawn. 



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CHAPTER XXV 

States That Vibrate 3 — Iowa, New York, South 
Carolina, West Virginia, New Mexico 

THIS combination of individual states all vibrate 
to the expression number 3. This number is 
the expression of spirit or matter by means of 
the first Trinity of numbers. It can as easily express 
1 as 2, and uses its influence in the way its people 
desire. 

IOWA 

Iowa vibrates to 3; its vowels are i, o, a, = 7. 
It sends out its attractive force to those having the 
points of contact found in its vowels i, o, a. That is, 
it attracts the inspirational strong people of 9, as well 
as those who vibrate 6, scarlet, orange and heliotrope 
also and the creative flame found in a. 

As a whole its people are living in the Sunday 
of life. They have a tendency to complete a finished 
work. They are refined and happy, but do not pos- 
sess the sturdy hard-working activity of the 4 vi- 
bration. 

NEW YORK 

New York vibrates 3 ; its vowels are e, o, == II. 
This state well shows the broad surface the 
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114 TH£ PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

vibration of 3 expresses. It should be a happy meet- 
ing place for all kinds of people. 

The state of New York calls by its vowels e, o, = 
II, for men and women who are vibrating to the 
highest human vibration, that of the 11. Its people 
may seek the white light containing all the colors in 
the gamut of colors, or they may make contact with 
the darkness and find, like Africa, the abject degra- 
dation of a strong vibration. The o shows the objec- 
tive fascination of all thing the e, limited mental as- 
piration, together developing the strong atmosphere 
of 11, 3. 

SOUTH CAROLINA 

South Carolina vibrates to 3. Its vowels are 
o, u, a, o, i, a, which vibrate as a whole to 8. This 
state attracts its people by varied lines of vibration 
from all sources excepting those who vibrate to e, 
the pink light. This fast vibrating number is absent 
and its fast revolving character is not felt in South 
Carolina. 

Its people as a whole vibrate to 8, the number of 
intellect rather than mind, and this leads its success- 
ful ones into corporations instead of indiyidual work. 

These people vibrate to red, purple, brown, scar- 
let, orange and heliotrope ; but as a whole they vibrate 
to the exclusive color of canary, which is their most 
successful vibration. 



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WEST VIRGINIA 

West Virginia also vibrates to 3. Its vowels 
are e, i, i, i, a, = 6. It attracts those persons who 
vibrate to pink, red, brown and flame and they as a 
whole show the vibration of 6. This is the rapid 
vibration of the higher workers, who are money- 
makers as a whole and inspirational, and yet will not 
succeed as well as those having more concentrated 
vibrations. 

NEW MEXICO 

New Mexico vibrates 3 — New 6, and Mexico 6, 
giving a digit of 3. Its vowels are e, e, i, o, making 7. 
The state wishes to give expression to 6, the number 
of the highest class of workers, but the people it calls 
are living in the day of rest and care more to com- 
plete work already begun, than to start new occupa- 
tions. It will not advance as rapidly as some of the 
other states. 



CHAPTER XXVI 

States That Vibrate 4 — Alabama, Arizona, Mis- 
sissippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, 
Washington, Oklahoma 

THESE states vibrate to the turbulent number 4. 
Their state colors are blue and green. 
These states send out strong physical vibrations 
of possibilities to those who are able to bear them, 
and all intellectual projects should be successful in a 
certain limited way. 

It is possible for them to express the direct oppo- 
site qualities. 

ALABAMA 

Alabama as a state vibrates to 4. Its vowels also 
show the same vibration, a, a, a, a, = 4. It sends 
out only one strong flame of force which is subjec- 
tive, and by its excess it attracts the opposite to those 
whose birth or name is the struggling 4 nature. 

The four people will work to build or sow as no 
other vibration will, and they will know how every 
dollar was earned. 

The state lacks the material principle. It deals 
with individual parenthood instead of brotherhood,, 

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STATES THAT VIBRATE 4 117 

and yet its people should be of a high vibration, whose 
strength lies above the physical and intellectual. But 
in some way they have dropped into the green cur- 
rent and the blue burning above is apt to be unnoticed. 

ARIZONA 

Arizona vibrates to 4. Its vowels are a, i, o, 
a, = 8. 

The spiritual structure of Arizona attracts men 
who vibrate the free numbers, as its esoteric vibra- 
tion is higher than the state vibration. All the hid- 
den possibilities of Arizona will be developed by the 
people it attracts. People of all classes will go to this 
state and find homes there, yet life will always be 
strenuous. 

Organized capital will flourish in this state of 
blue and green. Its inhabitants cover it with the fine 
force of yellow and green, making the canary of 8. 

MISSISSIPPI 

Mississippi vibrates 4 and is expressed in blue 
and green. 

Its vowels are i, i, i, i, = 9. This state also 
calls to those who vibrate higher than the state. 
Weakness is shown in the excess of the high inspira- 
tional number of 9. The weakness lies principally 
in the inharmony of state and people. The state is 
limited to a hard working vibration and it calls those 



118 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

only of inspirational quality, who disregard the de- 
mand of the state for hard labor, and this inharmony 
of vibration will be an obstacle to its progress. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE 

New Hampshire also vibrates to the active, vig- 
orous, intellectual number 4. Its vowels are e, a, i, e, 
making 2. 

These people vibrate higher than the state and 
are by nature not as rugged as the state calls for, as 
the mineral predominating in the bodies of the 2's is 
gold, a material unfitted for rough labor. It calls 
those who are philosophical as well as inspirational 
by the varied vibrations of its vowels, e, a, i, e, as a 
whole resolving themselves into the 2 vibration of 
gleaners and gatherers of philosophical and inspira- 
tional truths. 

NORTH CAROLINA 

North Carolina as a state vibrates 4, blue and 
green, and by its vowels attracts through o, a, o, i, a, 
the people who vibrate 5, the pink light. It calls to 
those of varied tones and of great fascination of 
thought and manners. 

WASHINGTON 

Washington vibrates to the intellectual and 
struggling vibration of 4 and its people through the 
vowels, a, o, i, to the highest limited vibration, that of 



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the 7. This is a complete number in limited vibration 
and the people will struggle together until a Moses 
of free vibration leads them out for the good of the 
race or for individual gain. 

OKLAHOMA 

Oklahoma vibrates 4, the hard working vibra- 
tion. Life is a struggle in Oklahoma. But it does 
not call the right people to meet its vigorous vibra- 
tion. The people are the o's, the high class of work- 
ers, and the a's, the creators, which end in 5. 

Oklahoma will advance very slowly on account 
of this inharmony. The fact that the vowels are re- 
peated, intensifies the difference. 



CHAPTER XXVII 



The 5 Vibration — Utah 

UTAH is the only state that vibrates 5, of pink 
color, which mutely asks for love without 
passion. 

The explanation lies in the Law of Opposites, 
as all countries vibrating 5, in some way, deal with 
the sex question, the Law of Opposites being Mascu- 
line and Feminine. 

Its initial letter u, shows its growth will be sus- 
tained by the people and state working in harmony. 

It will ever call people of the 4 vibration who 
will struggle and work for homes and advancement, 
as the objective 4 people always do. They will rear 
great cities and build fine homes, but changes are 
bound to come, as the vowels, u and a, will seek to 
express a principle which is to them a flame of blue 
and green. 



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CHAPTER XXVIII 

States That Vibrate 6 — Delaware, Massachu- 
setts, Missouri, Montana, Texas, Maine 

delaware 

DELAWARE vibrates 6, which stands for ma- 
ternity, and its vowels call e, a, a, e, = 3. It 
should mother various projects, but it calls 
but two classes of people, the intellectual e's and the 
people with great initiative, the i's. It is possible 
that the lack of a hard working element may hold 
back its progress. 

MASSACHUSETTS 
Massachusetts vibrates to the maternal vibration 
of 6. Its vowels are a, a, u, e, = 1. It calls people 
who are more highly developed to subjective sight 
than the state. Those whom the state calls desire 
principles to rule them; they understand the Unity 
of Life and are stronger upon the unseen than upon 
the objective side of life. 

MISSOURI 

Missouri vibrates to 6 and its people are repre- 
sented by the vowels, i, o, u, i, = 9, a high inspira- 
tional people. 

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122 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

There will often be a conflict between state and 
people, as the people seek the utmost freedom of 
speech and action and the state will hold them back. 
Its people will try to express that which is not found 
and many times when failing to reach the high spiritual' 
law of Universal Brotherhood, they are liable to 
express the opposite. 

It is a state of gorgeous coloring, which if not 
met, means a barren, colorless life. 

MONTANA 

Montana, which also vibrates orange, scarlet and 
heliotrope attracts by its vowels, o, a, a, = 8, a dif- 
ferent class of people from either Massachusetts, Mis- 
souri, or Delaware. 

Montana calls for those who belong to the free 
vibration of 8. 

They are people who should organize and bring 
forth good commercial results. It calls people who 
will develop everthing the state holds by constant 
attention and care. 

As a whole the inhabitants vibrate to canary and 
to the key of C. 

TEXAS 

Texas also vibrates 6 and calls to people of the 
6th vibration. These people as a whole realize to 
their fullness the colors of orange, heliotrope and 
scarlet. They are searchers in the limited vibration 



STATKS THAT VIBRATK 6 123' 

of 6. Activity and cheerfulness should be the key- 
note of Texas, and as the state and people both vibrate 
to the note of Unity, A, they should make the state a 
happy, home-like garden, where only moderate labor 
is required to succeed. 

MAINE) 

Maine vibrates 6, the number of the artistic work- 
ers, and the people represented by a, i, e, also vibrate 6. 

Among the people it calls are the subjective ones, 
the people with initiative, the inspirational i's and the 
people of mind represented by the e's. As from its 
vibration it is a working state, from the character 
of the inhabitants a high class of work should be 
wrought out in Maine. 

The people of Maine are distinctly one with the 
state, as state and people vibrate together. Its great- 
est strength and weakness lies in this fact. 



CHAPTER XXIX 



States That Vibrate 7 — California, Dakota, 

Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, 

Wyoming 

THIS group of states vibrates to the vibration 
of the earth, 7. It is called the finished vibra- 
tion of the limited cycle. It is the Sunday of 
weeks and ending of the cycles below it. 

These states find a completion in themselves for 
what is missing of individual comfort. The inhabi- 
tants of the group differ, but they must be like the 
state in some point, or they would not have been at- 
tracted within its boundaries. This is true of all the 
states. 

The products of this group of states will always 
be found equal to the needs of the time. 

CALIFORNIA 

California attracts by her vowels, a, i, o, i, a, those 
who vibrate the free canary vibration of 8. These, 
people are of the highest intellectual type, proud of 
everything pertaining to their state or family. 

They have varied beliefs, as shown by the flame 
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STATES THAT VIBRATE 7 125 

of brown, purple and the different shades of red, and 
yet as a whole they will make their beliefs conform 
to the balanced objective and subjective 8. If they 
err at all, it will be on the side of the material, as 
their state is an earth bound one. 

DAKOTA 

Dakota as a state vibrates the same as California, 
to 7, the people to 8, but the letters show the different 
manner in which the forces seek expression. 

California shows that the harmonious third vibra- 
tion is found throughout the state by its initial letter 
of C — 3, resolving into the free 8, which shows free 
expression of its forces. 

Dakota's initial letter is D, showing the struggling 
4th vibration, which stands for energy and intellec- 
tual achievement in contrast to the expression of 
theories shown in California, which has an inspira- 
tional people. 

Dakota lacks the element of free expression, 
but on the other hand is safeguarded by intellectuality 
against all dangers of inspirational vagaries. 

As Dakota people vibrate a, o, a, = 8, higher 
than the state, they will bring out all the natural ad- 
vantages to be found in this limited but complete 
planet like state. 

Its people vibrate to scarlet, heliotrope, and 
orange with a flame of canary. This state encourages 



^126 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

the making of permanent homes and business more 
strongly than does California. 

INDIANA 

Indiana vibrates to 7 and has the brick and steel 
colors. 

Its inhabitants, represented by i, i, a, a, are the 
2 people, those who gather from all sources and yet 
are always searchers. The double vowels show them 
to be inspirational. On the subjective plane they are 
free, but fail to express the force in objective life. 
They work in gold color with a flame of red. 

They should boldly bring forth their hidden 
treasure, which they are now holding latent. 

MARYLAND 

Maryland also vibrates to 7. Her people repre- 
sented only by the two a's are also 2 people. 

This paucity of vowels shows them to be clan- 
nish and conservative. They lie between the numbers 
that stand for creation and expression and may ac- 
tualize either or let their powers lie dormant. The 
people of Maryland live too much in the past — 7th 
vibration — instead of in the actual present. 

NEW JERSEY 

New Jersey's vibration is 7, showing that it 
vibrates to all below the limited 7. It, too, will al- 



STATES THAT VIBRATE 7 127 

ways find everything its inhabitants need. These in- 
habitants are of the merry, social 6 nature, who in 
the limited cycle are the highest class of workers. 
The state vibrates higher than the people it esoterically 
attracts. It has the maternal quality of 6 and wel- 
comes all guests who come to its shores. Its vowels 
are only e, e, e, showing inhabitants of one mind, the 
fascinating but uncertain 5 type. The colors of the 
people are pink, orange, heliotrope and scarlet. 

TENNESSEE 

Tennessee, too, has the 7 vibration of steel and 
brick and sends out much the same call as New Jer- 
sey, except that it goes further into the subjective and 
ends in gold. 

Its vowels are only four e's, making the vibra- 
tion of 2. This represents gold, which is too fine a 
metal to be put to rough use and when it swings to 
the opposite extreme one finds the opposite of its fine 
qualities. It has not the same possibilities of many of 
the other states. The repetition and limitation of the 
vowels makes too much intensity for use on the ob- 
jective plane, but should, perhaps, make it rather 
active in the beginning of the realm of mind. The 
inhabitants vibrate to gold and pink. 

WYOMING 

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128 THE PHILOSOPHY 0? NUMBERS 

digit as New Jersey, 6, but they are a totally different 
kind of people. 

New Jersey's force is in a manner lost in the 
state, as it contains nothing but three e's. Wyoming's 
vowels are o, i, and its esoteric strength lies in the o, 
which pushes out for expression and seeks to bring 
forth every possibility the state holds. 

The colors of the state are steel and brick ; of the 
people, orange, scarlet and heliotrope. 



CHAPTER XXX 

States That Vibrate 8 — Georgia, Nebraska, Penn- 
sylvania, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin 

THESE states vibrate to the free and unlimited 
number of 8. Their color is canary. 

In these states fortunes may be made and 
lost with greater ease than in states that show a lim- 
ited vibration. There is an air of freedom which 
seems to spring from the streams and mountains to 
urge men to great undertakings. 

In this group of states, if men will remember 
their brother's rights, unlimited power and money 
will be gained without the amount of servile labor 
necessary in the states of limited vibration. 

GEORGIA 

Georgia vibrates 8 and yields the composite col- 
ors composing canary. It is a flame of yellow, green 
and white which composes this color. The vowels 
are e, o, i, a, making the vibration of 3. This num- 
ber expresses what it comes in contact with. In this 
case it must represent canary, pink, scarlet, orange, 
heliotrope and red, and the a makes a binding flame, 
which should make for strength. 

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130 TH£ PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

Persons vibrating 8, 9, 11 or 22, should succeed 
in Georgia, provided they keep steadfastly in mind the 
idea of the Brotherhood of Man. 

NEBRASKA 

Nebraska vibrates 8, but its people will not take 
advantage of all their opportunities as they are repre- 
sented by the vowels e, a, a, making the conservative 
people 7, who can not understand the great possibili- 
ties of the state. If they would cease living in the 
Sabbath of life, they would find they have hidden 
strength and could bring it forth as 8, 9, 1 1, 22. 

PENNSYLVANIA 

Pennsylvania also vibrates 8, the canary color, 
and attracts people of the 7 vibration, who as a class 
are too conservative to get the full value from the 
state, the people vibrate lower than the state. 

These people, however, have the advantage over 
the Nebraskans, as the vowels are stronger and more 
varied, e, a, i, a, making 7 but containing the free 9 
of inspiration, which calls individual giants to its 
borders. It has great hidden strength and will con- 
tinue to burn as a flame, always going ahead under 
the lead of the giants who continually urge their fel- 
low countrymen to leave their exclusiveness and come 
out of the Sunday life. 

The 8 vibration, mingling with the 7 of Nebraska 



STATES THAT VIBRATE 8 131 

and Pennsylvania, make them places for the develop- 
ment of religious sects. 

VERMONT 

Vermont vibrates 8 as a state, the color of canary, 
but its hidden strength lies with the people who vibrate 
to the very highest, e, o, making n and holding the 
force of black, white yellow and violet. Had this 
state a 9 among its numbers, it would be a very giant 
of strength. As it is, it sadly lacks the power to ex- 
press the human quality. 

The 8 of the state stands for intellectuality and 
advancement; the true 11 of its people caring nothing 
for expression and hiding their strength. The unex- 
pected may occur at any time in Vermont. 

VIRGINIA 

Virginia also vibrates 8, the canary color. It 
attracts as its inhabitants i, i, i, a, vibrating to the 
limited and unlimited 1. Its esoteric value is re- 
vealed by the three i's of all numbers denoting the 
fullest expression of soul, as revealed in the vital 
red of the 9. 

Mingled with the 8 the people show pride in land. 

The brown lends depth to the inspiration of the 
reds. 

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132 THE PHILOSOPHY Otf NUMBERS 

WISCONSIN 

Wisconsin also vibrates to the canary of 8. By- 
its vowels i, o, i, it attracts the 6 vibration of people. 
It is more physical than the state of Virginia, as the 6 
steps out boldly with its inspiration and discoveries 
and expects the world to recognize what it offers. 

In organization and mining interests, the state 
as a whole will lead its people. 



CHAPTER XXXI 

States That Vibrate: 9 — Alaska, Arkansas, 
Illinois 

ALASKA, Arkansas, and Illinois vibrate to the 
strong, free vibration of 9 — the vibration 
that holds the rich colors of red, purple and 
brown. These individual states hold great wealth, 
both of a material and spiritual kind and are to be 
felt as powers. 

ALASKA 

Alaska's esoteric value lies in the creative force 
of the three a's, a, a, a, making 3. This 3 vibration re- 
produces or expresses the 9 of the state and causes 
its inhabitants to feel as one with the state. Like 
all the other 9 combination, Alaska will attract peo- 
ple vibrating 8, 9, 11, 22. These people will find 
great possibilities to develop in this state and, not- 
withstanding the climate, will so strongly feel the 
attractive force of the state that they will be loath 
to leave it. 

ARKANSAS 

Arkansas as a state also vibrates the free high 
soul expression 9 and attracts by its vowels a, a, a, 
people of the 3's. 

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134 THE PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

This state, like Alaska, vibrates upon the objec- 
tive as well as subjective of free expression. As its 
spiritual structure vibrates excessively strong upon 
the subjective side, as shown by the three a's, if this 
high vibration is not met, it will have a tendency to 
make the inhabitants live upon the surface of the 
real, when the true things of life will appear as ideals 
too lofty to be attained. 

This should be a good state in which to develop 
original ideas and organizations should succeed there. 

Arkansas is a flame of red, and it is possible for 
its people to burn and consume their great force in- 
stead of giving it expression. 

ILLINOIS 

Illinois vibrates to the free 9 and its spiritual 
structure is of such a nature it reproduces its own 
atmosphere in its people, as shown by its vowels, 
i, i, o, i, making the 6th vibration. As this vibration 
expresses the maternal quality, it fosters the growth 
of all important thought and the three i's, which have 
physical strength, give it material expression. 

The state vibrates to red, and with it the people 
bring orange, which calls for power, scarlet, the vivid 
surging of physical life, and heliotrope, which ex- 
presses the freedom of the plane above the material. 
They are an emotional people, strong for good, and 
this strong state vibrates higher than its people. 



CHAPTER XXXII 

States That Vibrate: ii — Florida, Kansas, Ken- 
tucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, 
Oregon, Colorado 

THIS group of states vibrates to the highest of 
human vibration, n — the one number no man 
can define, as its possibilities are unlimited in 
all directions. It is the number of the greatest and 
the smallest, having very little middle ground. These 
states vibrate to black, white, yellow and violet. 
Everything for the good of the body, soul and spirit 
should be found in the n vibration. These states 
differ, as do individuals, in personal characteristics, 
but in strength all of them are powers. 

FLORIDA 

Florida vibrates to n and calls to people of the 
o, i, a, the 7th vibration or to the limited numbers 
beneath 7. It sends its call to this refined but conser- 
vative people, who are holding back the state, which 
stands for unlimited freedom in all things. 

Its spiritual structure, represented by the inhabi- 
tants, stays the hand of the unlimited, as the conser- 
vative 7's fear the ban of lawless thought and hold 

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136 THE PHILOSOPHY OP NUMBERS 

the state to the finished vibration of 7. The people 
as a whole vibrate to brick and steel, but there are 
people there who vibrate to o and also to i, showing 
that the creative flame of red, scarlet, orange and helio- 
trope is felt in the atmosphere. 

KANSAS 

Kansas, too, vibrates 11, but attracts a different 
class of people. The vowels are a, 'a, a double flame 
of creative light, expressing a people of hidden spir- 
itual principles, who show very little of the physical. 
The state vibrates to the highest spiritual vibration 
and the people lack but one vibration of making the 
same. If it had more of the objective element, its 
ideals could be more easily realized. As it is, its col- 
ors are too fine to move the earth currents as they 
would if it had something beside " a " in its structure. 

To succeed, Kansas must ever hold fast to its 
ideals ; otherwise, like Africa, it will swing to the dark 
side of its vibration and the blackness of gloom will 
pervade it. It is a free lamp of spirit, burning for 
the Creator. 

KENTUCKY 

Kentucky vibrates 11. Its vowels are e, u, = 8. 

Its colors are the white, black, yellow, and violet 
of 11, the canary of 8 and the pink of e, all of the 
most refined order. They show vibrations of spir- 
itualized love, the psychic sense and rest. The white 



STATES THAT VIBRATE 11 137 

shows realized ideals, the black those of the unrealized. 
The canary shows a material freedom of the body, 
which is expressed sometimes in intellectual haughti- 
ness, its ideals are the highest, and if they are not 
lived, the opposite will be expressed. 

Kentucky calls people of only two kinds, while 
Kansas calls for but one kind of people. Others may 
come, but their roots will not sink deep into the soil. 

LOUISIANA 

Louisiana vibrates to n and has the blessings or 
the darkness of this high vibration. Its spiritual 
structure, unlike Kansas and Kentucky, calls many 
kinds of people to its borders, as shown by its vowels, 
o, u, i, i, a, a, = n. 

It looks as if it might have begun as a money- 
making state, o, then gone into an inspirational period, 
i, i; later on it will go into a subjective condition, 
and as a shows ideals of the highest or the lowest and 
the state and people vibrate 1 1, the people will appear 
in parts as lamps of shining light, sitting in the high 
place of the temple. The vibrations of this state are 
varied, but over all is the unborn freedom of the 1 1, 
which any of its inhabitants can use, or they may 
sink into the gloom of unrealized desires. 

MINNESOTA 

Minnesota vibrates 1 1 and calls to people through 
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138 THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS 

by a varied people, as shown in the vowels i, e, o, u r 
ending in the vibration of 3. This 3 mentally asks 
the people to vibrate with the state in the high 1 1. 
This state calls to many different kinds of minds and 
offers freedom to all those who live at their highest. 

OHIO 

Ohio vibrates 11 and calls to people through 
o, i, o, giving the digit of 3. These vowels by their 
structure give a balance of the objective to the state 
and people. The state vibrates the highest of all 
vibrations, and its people are the highest type of in- 
spirational workers. As the state vibrates higher 
than its people, in this case, this gives an element of 
security. 

The 3 people are the highest expression of the 
Trinity of Mind, and as the state sends out vibrations 
of the highest quality of spirit and matter, Ohio is a 
strong, safe state, whose people see beyond the range 
of material things. 

OREGON 

Oregon vibrates 11 and its spiritual structure 
is shown in o, e, o, = 8. As the vowels are all those 
of limited vibration, it attracts those who are indi- 
vidually less strong than those of Ohio, but as a 
whole they form into the strong free number of 
canary, the 8. This strong free number, together 



STATES THAT VIBRATE 11 139 

with the spirit of freedom given by the state, will 
cause the people to develop higher vibrations. The 
state has bright prospects, providing it does not turn 
into the darkness. 

COLORADO 

Colorado also vibrates n and its spiritual struc- 
ture is shown in o, o, a, o. The wealth of the vowel o, 
give it the human quality needed when the people 
vibrate to I. 

This number calls for the unity of the wealth, 
making o's to hold its people to the state, which 
vibrates a little higher than its inhabitants. 

Colorado must succeed, as her people will uphold 
the unity of the state as shown by the I, which is the 
hidden flame, showing upon the surface in orange, 
scarlet and heliotrope. 

THE UNITED STATES 

Officially the title of our country is The United 
States of America, which vibrates to the pivotal num- 
ber of the soul, the free vibration of 9 in the trinity 
of Body, Soul and Spirit. 

This is the plane where free expression in its 
highest form should come forth into objective life. 

The name by which we are commonly known, 
The United States, vibrates to the subjective number 
of Unity as expressed in the vibration of 1 ; its vowels 



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or spiritual structure also calls the i's of high creative 
power to its shores. 

It could not be the home it is for all classes of 
men were this high vibration, the one in actual use 
and the only one in force, but the free expression 
number 9 calls for all classes, those of limited and un- 
limited development. 

The esoteric value of the full title is e, u, i, e, a, e, 
o, a, e, i, a, = 5. 

This combination contains all of the vowels, so 
the call is to all kinds and conditions of men who 
flock to our shores and find their average in 5, the 
number which gives versatility and a reaching out 
of independent mind and thought. 

The country will ever be a soul home for those 
who are reaching out above the ordinary plane of life. 

The esoteric value of the name in common use, 
The United States, is represented by e, u, i, e, a, e, = I, 
the same high vibration as the country that calls 
them. These people are subjective and original. 

Like Greece of old, the country sends out a triple 
call to the eager e's. 

The United States calls all classes except the ar- 
tistic workers, the 6's. This may be why we have so 
far fallen a little short in original artistic work; but 
as these people also are called in the official title, which 
is in a manner held dormant, even their work can 
be brought out into objective life. 



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The United States and the people who represent 
it stand for unity. All of these eager searching e's 
are ready to sink their own individuality in the one 
paramount idea of unity. That is the one great idea 
for which the United States stands, — a unity that will 
bind her people of all nations together as one people, 
and which will express itself individually as a perfect 
union of Body, Soul, and Spirit. 



CHAPTER XXXIII 



Our Island Possessions 
porto rico 

( ORTO RICO expresses herself by 3, 9, making 
a digit of 3. 

The vowels are o, o, i, o, of the numerical 
value of 9. This calls strong, free, loving men to its 
shores, who will express all the possibilities of the 
island. 

It was formerly known as Puerto Rico of the 5 
vibration. Its vowels then were u, e, o, i, o, making 
11. This change was not accidental. When the 
United States first took possession, Congress decreed 
that the name should be known as Puerto Rico — 5, 
esoteric value, n. But in a few months, without any 
explanation being given, it was changed to Porto 
Rico, 3, esoteric value 9. 

The free 9 being present in Rico, as Puerto Rico 
it probably gave too free expression to the sex ele- 
ment (5) and thereby caused confusion, which the 
inhabitants were unable to meet, as the inclination 
would be to linger in the dark side of the 11, when 
they were not able to reach its height. Whatever the 

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cause, the name was changed to Porto Rico, which in 
Spanish is absolutely meaningless ; but with this name 
the country has many possibilities. Its great danger 
lies in the people giving themselves too freely to the 
pleasure loving vibration of the 9; this vibration also 
possesses the tendency to develop feuds, which will 
be given free expression. 

The island, and its people, belong to the free, 
happy vibration of red and all its shades, with orange 
and heliotrope. It lacks the co-ordination of the 
canary and cream found in the even numbers. 

the: Philippines 

The Philippines vibrates to 7, and like all others 
of the highest limited vibration, it will ever resent the 
interference of other vibrations. 

Its vowels are i, i, i, e. It has too many high 
vibrating i's for any one to reach and find its digit 
or level in the limited number 5, showing its people 
will ever desire lawless freedom, reaching as a whole 
the changing plane of 5. Yet this country will ever 
be an interesting and fascinating one, showing a kind 
of refinement even in its crude desires for advance- 
ment. 

HAWAII 

Hawaii vibrates 6, the number of the highest 
workers, and its inhabitants have the numerical value 



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2. It calls a, a, i, i, to the inspirational free 9's and 
to the subjective i's. 

There will be a great deal of work done in Ha- 
waii, but the danger will be that island and people 
will not rise above the material. In this case the in- 
habitants will not be comfortable and will probably 
leave the island in disgust without being able to give 
a good reason for their dissatisfaction. 

Hawaii lacks the joyous atmosphere of Porto 
Rico, although its colors are scarlet, heliotrope, orange 
and gold. 



CHAPTER XXXIV 



To Find the Character of Different Parts of 
Cities or States 

philadelphia 

AS countries differ in topography and climate., 
so do they differ in vibration, and different 
cities and different parts of the same city 
attract residents of similar tastes. This is brought about 
by the natural law of vibration. North, South, East 
and West vibrate to different expressions of that law. 

North vibrates 3, 

South vibrates 2, 

East vibrates 9, 

West vibrates 4. 

The vowel of North is o, — 6. 

The vowels of South are o, u, = 9. 

The vowels of East are e, a, = 6. 

The vowel of West is e, = 5. 

Philadelphia vibrates to 11. Its vowels are i, a, 
e, i, a, = 7. 

Pennsylvania vibrates to 8. Its vowels e, a, i, a, 
make 7. 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, vibrates to 11, 8, and 
will ever possess a freedom and standing not compre- 
hended by the people it attracts. The spiritual struc- 

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ture of both Philadelphia and of Pennsylvania is 7, 
the vibration of a complete planet in limited vibration. 
Philadelphia will ever remain in the refined Sunday 
atmosphere of life, the inhabitants complete in them- 
selves, like the vibration which calls them. 

This is true as a whole, but different sections call 
those with similar tastes to different parts, as North 
Philadelphia, South Philadelphia, West Philadelphia, 
and the eastern part. 

North Philadelphia vibrates 3, 11. They will re- 
express the city as it is, only in a more material way, 
its vowel being the maternal 6, which holds the many 
colors which express the many forces lying back of it. 

They are a gay happy people, who will make 
homes which they will enjoy for themeslves. The 7 
of Philadelphia added to their own 6 makes them the 
energetic 4. These people will build and make homes 
for posterity. 

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA 

South Philadelphia calls another class of people 
by its vowels, o, u, those of the free 9 vibration. The 
city vibrates to 11 and South to 2, making 2, 11. This 
is inexpressive unless combined with 3, 6, or 9. The 2 
vibration draws and holds its own treasure. The 9 
of their vowels is the free vibration of mind. These 
people should be heeded in matters concerning the 
city, because they have the unlimited mental vision 
which can see beyond the present. When disagreeing 



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with North Philadelphia, they feel the fetter of the 
limited 6, making often their own 9 fall to the lower 
number. The 6 people have glimpses of ideal life, 
which South Philadelphia should bring into objec- 
tive life. 

WEST PHILADELPHIA 

West Philadelphia vibrates to the energetic, limited 
number 4. Its vowel is e, of the numerical value of 5. 
The people are distinctly divided from the plane of 
their section; 4 desires to build, to win, to save, and 
believes nothing that it can not see with the outward 
eye; and the subjective 5 is in direct conflict. 

This part of Philadelphia will be the section 
where occult science will take root — as it vibrates to 
the limited realm of mind. Its people vibrate to pink 
and the section to green and blue. 

LAST PHILADELPHIA 

East Philadelphia vibrates to the free 9, II. 
This is the part of the city which has had free expres- 
sion and calls all humanity to its ports. It should be, 
and is the business part of the city. The vowels are 
e, a, = 6. The people are those with initiative who 
will put their ideas into force, being the highest class 
of workers. 

The variety of forces is shown in the varied col- 
ors, scarlet, orange and heliotrope. Their esoteric 
value added to their 7 of the whole makes them the 
energetic 4 people, — most of the workers are probably 
in North and East Philadelphia. 



CHAPTER XXXV 



Money— Its Vibration 

MONEY vibrates to 9 — the vibration of the full, 
free expression of good or evil. 9 represents 
the soul-plane lying between matter and spirit 
ready to bring either into expression. Its vowels, 
which show the spiritual structure, are o, e,— their 
numerical value is 1 1 . This is the highest of all vi- 
brations. Every coin carries within its form hidden 
from mortal eyes this 1 1 — the vibration of a righteous 
high priest. The inscription "In God we trust " was 
not an accidental embellishment but the voice of the 
esoteric priest waiting to be brought forth. 9, which 
is the objective vibration of money, speaks more plain- 
ly for the brotherhood of man than any other vibra- 
tion, and he who vibrates with it from a spiritual 
standpoint will have no needs. 

Money, the great spiritual messenger, vibrates 
objectively to all shades of red, purple and brown. 
Concealed within its form is violet, yellow, white and 
black. When its use is debased it lingers in the black 
corners of the world's vibration. 



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